Rhode Island Head Quarters 6th April 1776
Sir There are now Seven Square Rigd Vessels Standing in for Newport must beg you would immediately order one thousand men to our assistance [&c.]
Henry Babcock
P.S. we have a little Sport with Capn Wallace this morning & have fired thro & thro him
1. "Nicholas Cooke Correspondence," AAS Proceedings, New Series, XXXVI, 316.