By the Viscount Howe, Vice Admiral of the White and
Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels
employed and to be employed &c in North America.
You are to receive onboard His Majesty's Ship under your Command the two Pilots named in the Margin.
It is intended, upon your joining the Raisonable, that Isaac Redman should be put into that Ship in place of Edwd Johnson, whom you are to receive and retain in the Isis during your Stay at the Entrance of the Bay. The Pilot Timy Cain is also to remain in the Isis, to be employed for conÂducting any Ship of War that may arrive within the Capes in the mean time with Dispatches for me, up to the Anchorage of the Richmond off of Swan Point. Captain Gidoin, or other the Commander of the Frigate who may be found on that Station, will signify my further Intentions for forwarding the said Dispatches to me as Circumstances may induce.
Given onboard His Majesty's Ship the Eagle off of the River Elk the 31st day of August 1777.
To The Honble William Cornwallis
Commander of His Majesty's Ship the Isis.
By Command of the Vice Admiral
Josh Davies.
