Captn. Philip Sullivan
Sir/
You'll please Order a Num[ber] of Men from on board the Genl Moultrie to assist in Landing her Guns out of the Schooner1 and have all the powder, and Gunners Stores Landed & delivered to the proper Officers appointed to Receive them—2 I am [&c.]
Edward Blake first Commissr.
Monday 20th April 1778—
Salley, ed., South Carolina Navy Board, pp. 149–50.
1. Presumably, South Carolina Navy armed schooner Rattle Snake, Capt. James Woodhouse, commander.
2. On 23 Apr. the board ordered Sullivan to unload the remaining stores on board General Moultrie belonging to South Carolina and to have his warrant officers submit "proper Return of all the Stores expended." The board sent similar instructions to Capt. Charles Morgan of the brigantine Fair American. Ibid., p. 150.
