Baltimore Town ​Maryland

ss.

We John Smith, Jonathan Hudson and Daniel Bowley of Baltimore Town — Merchants being called upon by Archibald Buchanan and John Cornthwaite Copartner of John Brown in behalf of Willing Morris & Company to adjudge and value a Certain ship lying at Fells Point the Property of the said Archibald Buchanan and by him Chartered as P the Annexed Instrument of Writing the said ship called the Farmer —

Do Certify all whom it may Concern that We view'd and strictly Examined the said ship Farmer her Tackle apparel Boats and other furniture as now fitted for the Sea, and after such view and Examination we do adjudge the said ship Farmer to be worth and value her at the sum of Five Thousand Five Hundred pounds Current Money as Witness our Hands this sixth day of January seventeen hundred and seventy seven

Jn^o Smith Jon^a Hudson Dan Bowly

The above valuation was meant to be in Continental Money —