Dear Sir I have only One minute to tell you, we are at last embarked, with a fair Wind & Clear Coast, I am much obliged to you for your Letter by Mr. Thomas ー
I have Added to Our Provission four Quintals Fish & two Hhds Rum ー
I wish you health ー Happyness & Evry Success in your Department & am with much Esteem [&c.]
B Arnold
NB. [Newbury] Port 19 Sept 1775
1. Charles G. Slack Autograph Collection, MCL. Trumbull was commissary-general of the Continental Army.