The Eastern Navy Board to the American Commissioners
LS: American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress
<Boston, June 8, 1778: At the direction of the marine committee
we have provided the schooner Dispatch, Capt. Barnes, in
order to bring you packets of great importance forwarded by
the Council of this state. We hope they arrive safely, and ask
that you furnish the captain the necessary supplies, expenses
while in port, a month’s pay for himself and his crew, and 100
dollars in lieu of primage. The Council, we assume, will give
you American news; we enclose the gazettes published since
our last.>
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