Camp on Long Island July 21 1776.
Permit the bearer Capt Abraham Whipple who commands one of the Continental Frigates2 to pass and repass from the City of New York to this Island and back again.
also through any part of the Forts fortifications or Encampments during his stay at New York, he being a person that may be safely trusted.
Nathaniel Greene Brigadier General
To all the Guards and Sentries in and about the City of New York belonging to the Continental Army.
1. Abraham Whipple Papers, RIHS.
2. Commander of the frigate Providence who was returning from Philadelphia. Whipple had been mildly rebuffed by Congress for a "rough, indelicate mode of behaviour to his marine officers, " while commanding the Columbus. William James Morgan, Captains To The Northward (Barre, Mass., 1959), 51.
