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General Rules to be observed in conducting to America vessels carrying dispatches for the Congress.
1. All the Papers, Commissions, Orders &c ought to be Made out for St Pierre de Miquelon. And no one on board Except the Captain and officers should know anything to the Contrary.
2. Speaking with any Vessel should if possible be avoided, without however going too far out of the proper course....
Date: 1 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
You Commanding the Mere Bobie Packet Now distined for Nants in France, and Equipt for Sea are to Embrace the first fair wind and Sail for sd Port where when it shall please God you arrive. It's my Direction you Deliver the Dispatches which you have here with in a Lead Box, to the Order of the Honbl Benja Franklin, Silas Deane and Aurther Lee Esqs American Commissioners at the Court of France. — ...
Date: 29 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9