[Baltimore] 12 [January, 1775]
I wrote You the 4th Instant (Copy) of Which You now have to Which refer. I shall be a good dale Pushed for money to get the Hope loaded I am in Advance for [Benjamin] Fleming & raise very little out of the Schooners Servants & have yet nineteen of them on hands, the Schooner is Sailed this Evening for Ant[igua]2 Mostly on fright I shall Soon write about her to You. I have this day wrote to Rob Lisle Esqr of Newcastle on Tyne & have told him You will be on that Town I think You had better go there you can Introduce Yourself to him as a Partner of the House that done Ben Flemings Businss but I think You might Manage to be there When Fleming is at Home & woud have you with him about itー
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.
2. The schooner Industry, John Blakeney, master, sailed January 9, 1775, with a cargo of 70 barrels of pork, 130 barrels of flour, 200 barrels of bread, 1 ton of bar iron, 6000 hoops and headings, 2000 hoops, and 5000 shingles.
