Newport June 14th 1776
Sir
You are to proceed to New York and there deliver the Cannon agreeable to Messrs Hollingworth & Richardson's Orders. ー2 If you can get any Men you are to take as Many as you can Enlist ー You are to apply to Mr Jacobus Vantzantz for Pig Iron for Ballast or any other Necessarys you want
You may call at New London as you come back and take two Guns with a Sufficient Quantity of Shot & Cartridges out of the Bomb Brig and give Mr [Nathaniel] Shaw [Jr.] a Receipt for what you take & return to me as soon as possible ー
E.H.
To Hoysteed Hacker Esqr Commander of the Fly
1. Hopkins Letter Book, RIHS.
2. In the Hopkins Papers, is a tabulation entitled "Weight of Cannon &c Ship'd from Newport to Philada pr Sloop Fly ー June 11th 1776." It gives the total weight of six cannon to be "292.1..23" and "24 Trucks ー 20 0.12, " RIHS.
