In Council [Boston] July 22d 1777
Ordered that the Board of War be and they are hereby directed, imediately to send one or more Spy Vessells to Cruise in the Bay, to make what Observations they can of the Motions of the Enemys Ships and to give the Earliest Intelligence to this Board —
Read & passed
Jn° Avery Dpy Secy2
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 173, 296.
2. In compliance the Board of War requested that Colonel Jonathan Glover arrange to dispatch an intelligence gathering vessel. Mass. Arch., vol. 148, 246.
