Barnstable Jany 19 1776
Sir
This will be Delivered you [by] Mess Bucklin's & Brown Waggoners, Who has been with me here to Purchase Ct Solomon Davis Duck for the Committee of the Colony of R.I. Land but Ct Davis Having Sold it to the Massachusetts Colony, & as they Are Bearers of 100 Peices for you if so be, its to be Transported to Providence for the Use of the Ships Building there for the Colonys Service
I wd Ask it a favour that you Permit there Carting of it there Which will in some Measure make up there Disappointment here, & am [&c.]
Hy Quincy
P.S. The order pr Ct Davis in my favour I shall forward from Providence soon.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 194, 215.