Sir

Having none of your Favours of late unanswered, We take the liberty of informing you, that the State of our Navigation is at present too dangerous for any Vessels to attempt coming into this Bay; the Enemy having several Cruizers stationed at the Capes for some Weeks past. We Judgd it proper you should know, least The Board of War might be sending any more Vessels this Way. ー We are at present loading a Schooner for a Friend in your State with Flour & Bar Iron, which We send by Water from hence to the River Pocomoke, from whence the Goods are carried 12 Miles over Land to Chincoteague Inlet on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. ー This Place has proved an Assylum for many Vessels inward bound, wh wd otherwise be lost: And of late we have fallen on the expedient of loading them there, tho at a considerable Expence Should your Board be Necessitated by Want of Flour or Iron to run the Risque of attempting to get them in these perilous times, We woud advise that the Vessels be orderd into Chincoteague and the Masters directed to apply to our Friend Mr William Burdet, who will send us their Letters by Express ー This Gentln will see any Goods that we forward, Carted across & Shipp'd. We are with much Respect Sir [&c.]