Plymo 23 Septem: 1776
Sir
In Pursuance of Orders Receivd from the Major part of the Honble Council, You are hereby Requird In Conjunction with Brigadier [Joseph] Cushing2 to Cause the Men drafted from your Several Brigades In Consequence of the Resolves of the General Assembly of this State of the 12th And 13 Instant, Or As Many of them As Are Necessary to take Charge of 60 Whale Boats to be Provided By a Committe of the Genrl Assembly aforesd to march to Falmouth Or Buzzards Bay In the County of Barnstable Or Dartmouth In the County of Bristol Or to all said Places According As said Boats May Be Provided with their Arms And Baggage And In said Boats with All Possible Dispatch to proceed to Rhode Island And them to Deliver to the Honble Nicholas Cooke Esqr Governor of sd State thereof fail Not And make Return of your Doings to Me as Soon as May Be. I am [&c.]
J Warren -
1. Special Ms. Collection, CUL.
2. Otis and Cushing were Massachusetts militia officers.