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Honrd Sir Your Brother Mr secry Ward shewed Us your late Letter wherein you Mention that If we Inclined to Contract wth the Honbl Contenental Comte of Secrecy as before Hinted by Letter, That we Should write you Upon it, And having taken the Matter into Consideration, have Concluded to enter into A Contract for the Sum Mentiond by JB ———— for Twenty four Thousand Dollars, the Value thereof to be shiped to such foreign ports & the Nett proceeds Laid Out in such things as shall be Derected and for that purpose have Wrote Our friend Mr Josiah Hews Mercht in Phia & Given him Our General & special Power to Make & sign in Our behalf such Contract, as the Honbl Comte make with Others for Procuring Clothing &c As Messrs Cooke & Russel [Nicholas Cooke, Jr. and Joseph Dolbear Russell] are Dispach'd by the Navel Comte here, to bring them a Sum of Money, We desire you Yr Honr to pay the Whole Amount to Mr Hewes & the sd Young Gentl[emen] that they may be Dispached on Our Accots as Soon as on Acct the Navel Affairs, You'll please to Make the Contract as Extensive as to the Articels wanted as may be We are &c