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Gentlemen/

The bearer Mr Josiah Jones with the Sloop Polly [sic Molly] Epharim Perkins Master is Charterd for Windsor in Nova Scotia in order to Receive from You Hay, and Oats ー Am therefore to desire you will use every endeavor to Dispatch him as soon as possible agreable to my Letter wrote you via Halifax, the 29th Inst . . .

I am Gentlemen [&c.]