Baltimore 6th Janry 1776.
Dear Johny.
By the same Conveyance I wrote you fully and inclosed a Late paper  since that the Confirmation of Norfolk being burned is come to hand and we are all assured that our Trade will meet no more interruption from Dunmore this Winter therefore beg that you will put every Shilling you can Command in dry goods that is in such Articles as you carried your Memorandum of and send them with all speed. Mr Makem laid his Money out in [St.] Eustatia and has sold the goods for four times the first Coast [sic] Your Powder will intitle me to load the Sloop out but would not advise you to be large in that Article as large quantities is expected in daily. I am your afect. Fathr
P Capt Burk
[Endorsed] (a Copy) Jams Young
[Second endorsement] Copies of intercepted Letters Containing Intelligence of the proceedings and Designs of the North American Rebels.