Gent.

Yours 19th Ins is now before me & am sorry to find that the underwriters on the Hawk² have not paid you for I Really want the Money. I wrote you by Capt. [Edward] Chappell & Rogers, hope they have both arrived & that you will be able to send me the money for the Draft on Mess [Thomas & Isaac] Wharton, also Negociate £800 Currency to be pd in Boston. I expect [Eleazer] Pomeroy in a few days with a Load of Sugar from Guadalupe with sum Coffee which shall send down soon as it arrives unless you find the risque too great. Pomeroy writes me of the 18th Nov that the Sloop Sally, Ed. Hulling Master was at the Mole Grand hear in Guadalupe & was to take in Sugars and Sail in Twelve days for this Port. I would have you git three hundred pounds Insurance on the Vessell & £700 on the Cargo on Accot of N. Shaw Junr & Co. The Sloop was waiting for the Guardacostas to be out of the way to have an Oppory to take in Sugars so that it is uncertain whether Pomeroy will be able to Ship any Goods or that the Vessell will Sail for N.L. He writes me to have the Insurance made Conditionally, that if she does not Sail to pay nothing but the Charges, which is customery. Inclos'd is John Myers Rect for £63 in part pay for my Note wich is on 6 pr Ct Interest, as it was given in this Colony, but if he insists on 7 to pay him.