Capt. Robert Cooke: You are hereby authorized and commanded forthwith to enlist what number of men you can for the service of the gallies. They are to engage to the first of January, 1778, have the bounty given soldiers in the Continental service, and eight dollars per month wages, to be otherwise under the regulations of the navy and army of the United States.
Given at Headquarters, Peekskill, 15th June 1777. By order of Gen. Putnam.
A. Burr, A. D.C.
[Endorsed] Mr. Abraham Lewis, master of the Continental frigate Gen. Montgomery, being appointed to command the Lady Washington Galley, in the room of Captain Cooke, is to recruit men on the within warrant on the same terms Capt. Cooke was to have recruited them.
Geo. Clinton, B. Gen.
Fort Montgomery, 7th July 1777.
1. Walter R. and Mary A. Benjamin, The Collector, vol. 4, no. 37 (New York, September, 1890).
