Falmo Feby 17th 1777
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. . . I wrote last Fryday to the hone Geo: Williams Esq. about Objections the sailors here had, in engaging should be glad of Directions in entering them — They want 1 Mos pay & their Wages for the Time in port advanced, also Stores such as Rum, Coffee & Sugar, found on the Passage out, & home — should be glad to know the No of Men wanted — have engaged about 90 Masts from 20 to 26 Inches Diamr — all to be dld by 10th next Mo . . .
On the service of the State of Massachusets Bay To Mr John Loring Austin Secy at the Hone Board War in Boston by Capt Harper
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 152, 57, Board of War Letters, 1776-1777.
