Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Lieutenant Hacker

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Newport, June 14, 1776.

SIR: You are to proceed toNew-York, and there deliver the cannon agreeable to Messrs˙Hollingsworth andRichardson' s orders. If you can get any men, you are to take as many as you can inlist. You are to apply to Mr˙Jacobus Van Zandt for pig-iron for ballast, or any other necessaries you may want.

You may call atNew-London as you come back, and take two guns, with a sufficient quantity of shot and cartridges, out of the bomb-brig, and give Mr˙Shaw a receipt for what you take; and return to me as soon as possible.

Your humble servant.

ESEK HOPKINS.

ToHoysted Hacker, Esq˙, Commander of the Fly.