Balt[imor]e 4t Novr 1775
Sir
We inclose you a Paragraph from our Paper which informs us that the Snow in which we Shipp'd 60 Hhds flaxseed for Mr John Kearns of Alexandria & on which we order'd you to make £100 Stg Insurance, founder'd at Sea.2 this is therefore to desire you will immediately you recover it pay £100 Stg to Mildred & Roberts for our Accot & pay yourself for your Com: Prem &c out of the Proceeds of what he Shipp'd you from Alexandria.
The Kings Proclamation has arrivd Sir [&c.]
1. Smith Letter Book, MdHS.
2. Extract of a letter from New York, October 30, 1775: "Capt. John [James] Clark, of the Snow Baltimore, arrived here last night from the eastward, who was taken up by a whaling sloop in lat. 41, Jong. 60. she belongs to Baltimore, and bound for Europe," Pennsylvania Packet, November 6, 1775. See also Smith & Sons to James White, September 12, 1775.
