Emerald, off the Tail of the Horse Shoe Sir
[entrance to Chesapeake Bay] 24th April 1778.
Sir
The Otter1 having but one Anchor left, I am obliged to send her to New York, for others, the Solebay Captain Symonds2 informs me by letter has but two Anchors, which I acquainted You of by a letter gone in the Hotham Tender,3 and Captain Molloy has this day told me he is in want of two Cables. 4
Should an oppertunity offer, You will please to send those Ships a Supply of these Articles, and I shall hope the Otter will return here as soon as possible.
I have directed Captain Squire to leave a letter to my Lord Howe, on board some Ship in the Dellaware in his way. I am [&c.]
B.C.
LB, UkGrNMM, Benjamin Caldwell Papers, CAL/110, Letter Book (May 1776-June 1779), p. 25. Addressed at the bottom “To/Commodore Hotham."
1. H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Otter, Capt. Matthew Squire, commander.
2. H.M. frigate Solebay, Capt. Thomas Symonds, commander.
3. See Caldwell to Hotham, 18 Apr., above. Sloop tender Hotham, Lt. Thomas Jolly, commander.
4. Comdr. Anthony James Pye Molloy, commanding H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Senegal.
