You are hereby required and directed to wait upon Rear Admiral Shuldham for his Dispatches to carry to the Southward, and having received them you are to sail in his Majesty's Sloop under your Command as soon after as possible agreeable to my Order of the 13 instant, but you are to proceed without the Kitty Transport, and to return me h[er] sealed Rendezvous.
Sam Graves
Given under my hand on board his Majesty's Ship Preston at Boston 15 Janry 1776
1. Graves's Conduct, Appendix, 117, BM.
