Phila 4 April 1776.
Dr Sir,
I recd your note at the State House, and on coming down here find your Conjecture about the Schooner is right; she is one that Colo [Benja
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min] Harrison fitted out in Maryland but I cannot find the Captain; other People tell me she is leaky & sickly; however I will have her fitted quick as possible and sent down with particular orders to attend you if she gets down in time.
This however is uncertain, and you must determine for yourself whether to wait for her or proceed without. You know how hard it will be to get the Peopie on bd again, but all the dispatch that is possible shall be made. I am [&c.]
Robt Morris.
1. "The Deane Papers," Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1886, I, 131-32.
2. The Continental schooner Wasp.
