1. "I know it has been usual for the Kings Ships stationed at New York to haw! to the Wharf during the severity of Winter," Vice Admiral Graves wrote to Captain Montagu of the Kingsfisher on December 1, 1774, "but at present it may be dangerous to continue a practice which in my Opinion necessity alone could ever justify. I am informed there are two places in the River where a Ship may lie at her Anchors out of the Stream and not to be frozen up. I desire you will inform yourself of them, and shall be very glad if either is proper for your Sloop, being very unwilling that at this Juncture she should go to a Wharf, where at any time Discipline can be very indifferently observed, and where from the inactive Situation of the Sloop men will have too many Incitements to desert." Graves's Conduct, I, 31, MassHS Transcript.