2. Continental Instructions were issued the same day along with the commission. The former hear Rhodes's acknowledgment, as follows: "Providence August 8th 1776 I acknowledge the foregoing to be a true Copy of the Instructions delivered me this Day by his Honor the Governor, with my Commission, or Letters of Marque and Reprisal, as Commander of the Private Sloop of War Montgotnery. William Rhodes." Ibid., Maritime Papers, Revolutionary War, 1776-1783. A manuscript of a song for the Montgomery (see illustration), undated, but probably issued at the time of the commissioning, is in RIHS Mss., vol. 13, and reads:

Come all you young fellows of Currage So Bold
Come Enter on Bord and we will Cloth you with gold
Come Repair umto Providence and their you Shall find
A Sloop Called the mount gomery Shall Pleasure your minds — —

She is all Riged and fited and So neatly trimd
She Is molded Like ware work and She Sails Like the wind
She has all things Convenient and fit for our Design
god Prosper the mount gomery for She Sails Like the wind — —

Capt Rhods he Commands hur and He Calls hur his one
He will breeze her abought me boys before he Comes home
their is Hussions and helanders and Englishmen Like wise
we Will make prisees of them all me boys Until the Day that we Dy — —