Wethersfield Jany 22d 1776 ー
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... I propose Setting out this Afternoon from Say Brook, to Engage Carpenters Timber &C. I Shall Write you by Every Opportunity, pray get the Plan of the Ship compleated 2 & Send it by the first hand, Also Enquire in Regard to What the New York Carpenters have Said Ab[out] the Length of the Ship, I Suppose you have their plans before this Time
1. Silas Deane Papers, ConnHS.
2. Continental frigate building in Connecticut; later named the Trumbull.
