at present I have not prospect of Selling the Ship Paris, as there is So many prize Ships brought in here By the Americans & Sold for very Little, as good Ships as mine has been Sold for two hundred Johann[es] & that price will not do when considerd the price She Cost in America; have already purchas'd One hundred & thirty fire arms, Sev[e]n thousand Weight of Lead; thirty thousand flints, four thousand Wt Pouder Some duck Cordage &C. the Plan you wrote my of Relative to Chartering A french Vessell is not Practicable here. they will not hear to any thing unless Security is given for the Vessell here before her departure . . .
Pt Petre Grand teere2 28th Ma[r]ch 1777.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 152, 94. 95, Board of War Letters, 1776-1777.
2. Pointe-à-Pitre, Grande-Terre Island, Guadeloupe.
