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. . . I was in great hopes you would have had guns from Connecticut for the Raleigh, but you say you have no prospect of them — no answer has been received from Governor Trumbull, on that subject though I have long expected it. I am doing every thing in my power to procure them here and if my endeavors had not been so often baffled should think I had a fair prospect of success —

I hope you are going on with preparations for the 74 — our removal hither has disconcerted matters so that I have not been able to procure the dimensions but expect them from Philadelphia every day: in the mean time I hope the timber will be procured and every other necessary that you can collect and I hope by the time this reaches you the vessels I mentioned in some of [my] former letters will be on their passage here for iron &c . . .