Messrs Alexr Gillon & Co
Gentn

This will be handed you by Capt Bradford Master of our Ship Pliarne, &inclos'd are Invoice &Bills Lading of 7 H'ds white Sugar which we pray you to dispose of to the best advantage for our Account, & ship the proceeds aboard Capt Bradford in Rice, with which Article we pray you to load him with all dispatch, & consign him to Messrs J Gruel & Co in Nantes on our Acco ー But as the Sugar sent you will be very inadequate to the purchase of a Cargo, we shall send off by a special Messenger by Land sufficient to repay you any sum you may advance, either for the Pliarne, or Capt [Jacob] Cole ² whose Cargo we fear will be insufficient, as the Articles we sent in her we fear are very low at your Market.

By order of the Board