Orders of Commodore Hopkins, to the Captains

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On board the Alfred, March 18, 1776.

SIR: You being appointed Master of the Ship Endeavour, you are to keep company with the fleet until further orders; but if you should lose company, you are to use your best endeavours to get into Providence. If you cannot get in there, you are to go in on the east side of Rhode-Island, or Howland' s Ferry, under the Fort, or into New-London. And whenever you get into port, you are to land your guns and stores, and send to Governour Nicholas Cooke, at Providence, or Governour Trumbull, for further orders, until you hear from me.

ESECK HOPKINS.

To Elisha Hinman, Esq.