Head Quarters N Yk. 5th Augt 1776
Sir
Yours of the 29th Ulto is duly Received; for the future I must desire all Warlike Stores & Necessaries for an Army, taken by the Armed Vessels in Public Service, may be safely Stored, under care of the Different Agents 'till they receive Orders from proper Authority. you will please to enjoin it upon the different Commanders of the Continental Cruisers, to be particularly careful no Embezelment is made by their Crew or others. ー I am sir your [&c.]
G. Washington
To Mr John Bradford one of the Continental Agents at Boston
1. Washington Papers, LC.
