Philada April 15th 1777
Sir
I believe my Clerk omitted to insert the list of drafts I paid on acct of your State in the last letter I wrote You, therefore it shall be added hereto. The Agreement I made with your Convention has been the most Ill fated of any I ever had Connexion with a Ship of ours had onboard 500 Muskets intended for you, the Cursed Ships of War have drove her onshour at our Capes & the Captain attempting to blow her up after a brave defence lost his life,2 There was onbd 2500 Muskets for the Continent and the Mate writes me a good many will be saved unless the Tories plunder or Seize them, I am now sending down orders & assistance & whatever is saved of our share shall be delivered to your order, I expect they will be brought up to Dover & suppose they may easily be Conveyed from thence into Your State.3 If the Powder from the West Indias meets any disaster I shall beg to pay the ballance in Money for our losses in attempting to full fill this agreement are beyond all bearing. with great respect I am Sir [&c.]
Robt Morris ー
1. Red Book, III, Md. Arch.
2. Ship Morris, Captain James Anderson.
3. Morris wrote this date to Caesar Rodney at Dover, Delaware, requesting him to hire wagons and send them under militia guard to carry off the salvaged goods, William Buell Sprague Autograph Collection, HSP.
