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I have the Pleasure to inform your Honour of the Brig Defence arival in this Port yesterday Afternoon Not With Standing the bad Situation the brig was in when We Saild With Reguard to the men have made out to Take & Man four Prizes Vizt a bark Ship from Liverpool & Waterford bound to Jamaica Laden with Provisions Iron Work and Nails Sum ball [bale] Good &c ー A brig from bristol bound to Jamaica Laden With flour bread Paints & Oil bottle beer and Cider &c the Above two is arivd the Latter at boston the bark Mounted Ten Iron Guns another brig from Glasgow bound to Antigua Laden With beef & butter, a Snow from Dublin With beef and butter &c ー² Several Articles in the Prizes to Tedeous to Mention I Shall be Glad to have an answer from your honour What To Do With the brig  I am Informed the harber of New London Is Well Liend With Enemies Ships as it Was When We Saild by Which I found Difucalt in Gitting Out In Consequence of Which Mr Shaw has hailed up his Privateer Sloop in this Port I Would Recommend to your honour by all means Lengthun the brig and Put a Quarter Deck on hur that She may be in a Poster to Fight Which Now She is Not & most the Uncomfortables Vessel that Ever I Was In She might be Done at Bostone With Safty and I beleve Verry Soon I think It Would be the best Port for the brig at Present but Shall be Ready to Obay Any Orders that Shall Come from your honour Our Mens Times of Entering is Out & has been Since the first of March Which has made Sume Difucalty Many Run a way before We Saild and I Suppose all the Rest Will Do the Same. their time being out in a bout twelve Days after and Expected to Go in to the Vinyard they had Pland to Go home but I See their Was No Chance for to make a Cruis Unless We Put to Sea With What We had Accordingly we Did and with the blessing of God have Made Out better then I Expected Considering our Situ[a]tion I Must Conclude by Retering you to the Doctr³ for Father Perticulers I am your Honours [&c.]

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N B: I Must Conclude With Out Mentioning the New Appointed Officers to the Brig Which Does honour to themselves and Country allways Ready and Willing to Fulfill and Execute any Orders⁴ I Directed all the Prizes to the Care of Mr [Samuel] Eliot of boston that Should Fall in at or Near that Port as I Know him To be a Carefull man and one that understands the Nature Of Bisness the brig Will Want all New Standing Rigging and all Most All the Sails New and While that is Fitting their will Be time to Altar the Whole I Suppose the Chance of Gitting Men is as bad in New London as ever Which if It is Will be Impossible to Git hur Complement their if your honour Should Conclude to have the men Recru[i]ted the inlisting Orders Will be Necessary ー

I beg to Know What to Do with the Prisoners we have Got about twenty 10 Entered on board ー

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The Honble Jonathan Trumbull Esquire
Governor of the State of Connecticut
Favd by
Doctr Ellis  } Lebanon