Memo
In Case of Separation by any unavoidable Accident you are to make the best of your way to Halifax in Nova Scotia
Rose 2d April 1776 [off Newport].
Jas Wallace
To Mr Richard Fisher Not to be Open'd But in Case of Seperation from the Rose then may be Open'd
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 164, 299.
2. The sloop Hannah had been taken in Narragansett Bay in late March by Wallace's squadron. The above memo was found on board when a dozen men from Mount Desert retook the sloop on its way to Halifax. See under April 15, 1776.
