Portsmouth Jany 10th 1776
Sir,
I have dispatch'd my young man with sundry packages, Letters & News Papers to His Excellency General Washington, that came to hand by some Masters of Vessels lately arrivd at Casco Bay from England ー These Captains will set off for Head Quarters in a day or two to wait on the General, & deliver verbal messages they have from some Gentlemen of Note in London I hope it will be usefull
I have discharged the potateo Vessel 2 by Storeing about 550 bushels in a cellar, soon as disposed off I shall transmit you Sales &c. remaining with much Esteem Sir, [&c.]
Josha Wentworth
P.S. Mr King sends by this oppty Invoice of the Flour. 3
1. Washington Papers, LC.
2. Schooner Rainbow, John McMonagle, master, taken November 25, 1775, by Washington's schooner Warren.
3. The flour inventory covered the cargo of the ship Prince George, from Bristol, which blundered into the Piscataqua river in October, 1775, and was seized by the Portsmouth Committee of Safety. See Volume 2.
