Savannah 2sd February 1776 ー
Sir
At Ten days sight Pleas to pay to Mr Mordecai Sheftall or order Forty Eight pounds and two pence half penny sterling, it being for cash advanced by him to me, for recruiting of Men for the ship of Warr Called the prosper, in the South Carolina service, your self Commander, which sum pleas to place to account of said ship p[r]osper ー And Youl oblidge Sir [&c.]
Thos Sherman
To the Honorable William Henry Drayton Esqr In Charles Town South Carolina
[Memorandum on wrapper]
Mr Gray [the messenger] in attempting to cross Mr Zublys swamp was near drowning & obliged to return ー
1. A. S. Salley, Jr., ed. Documents Relating to the History of South Carolina During the Revolutionary War (Columbia, 1908), 11. Drayton was president of the South Carolina Provincial Congress.
