Hancock to Hopkins

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In Marine Committee, Philadelphia, May 31, 1776.

SIR: The Marine Committee have directed Captain John Bradford, in Massachusetts-Bay, their agent, to send to this city from Newburyport one hundred and twenty chaldrons of coal.

You are hereby directed to send one of the armed vessels under your command to that port, to take under convoy and conduct safe into Delaware-Bay the vessel or vessels in which the said coal may be shipped.

JOHN HANCOCK, Chairman.

To Esek Hopkins, Esq.