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I am really sorry I lye under the disagreeable necessity of Resigning, thro' the means of my taking a reasonable part (as becoming an officer) w'th Commodore [Samuel] Davison. I am sertain, was I to Continue in the fleet (w'ch I make, no doubt, your Hon'ble board w'd appoint me to some Command,) it w'd be disagreeable to some of the Gentlemen, and for the sake of any more disturbance, I beg leave...
Date: 23 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6