Watertown, October 28, 1775
[Extract]
I forgot to tell you that the powder arrived in our vessel at the eastward2 has got from ninety tons by various gradations to seven and one half, which I think I gave you as the true account, being what I thought I could rely on; and from thence to fifteen hundred and from thence to six hundred, which I believe is the true one, tho' I can't say that it won't descend to three lbs.
1. Warren-Adams Letters, I, 168, 169.
2. The schooner Britannia. See Timothy Langdon to Massachusetts General Court, October 16, 1775.
