Dear Sir

I wrote you on the 16 and 23 of June, the 21 of July & 14 of August but have not received the least Scrap from you since yours of the 27 of May, Which I know not how to Account for, These letters were Relative to the Ships I am building on Account of the Continent & if they had ever have Reached you, I think I should have had An Answer to them, in my last I informed you that the 36 Gun Frigate² was in Such forwardness that it was high time her Riggen was fixing & desired an order upon Colo Warren for the Riggen that lately came in to his hands from Spain, as also for a quantity of Duck sufficient for the Ships, The Business has been Retarded for want of such orders; I desired also to be informed from Whence I might expect the Guns for the Frigate & desired I might be furnished with A quantity of Iron from Baltimore Philadelphia the Jerseys or New York, I hope I shall Receive some very soon as other ways the Carpenters will Stand Still for want of that Article, I have been oblidged to give one hundred pounds lawfull Money P Ton & they now Ask one hundred and Eighty pounds P Ton, The price of every thing Necessary for the Ships Raises every day A great deal of money goes but a little way, such Articles I have been oblidged to purchase are so high that the money, you sent me last, is all Expended, I must intreat you would immediately Send me another Draft upon the loan office or I shall not. be able to keep the Carpenters and other Tradesmen at Work much longer, indeed I find it very difficult to get them to work for Money at all, They say they can find employ from Private People & Receive a large proportion of their wages in Provisions and West india Goods, so that in case they Agree to work for money they expect to Receive it when ever they want it, Whether it is due to them or not. I must beg your immediate attention to this Matter & also to furnishing me with a Supply of Iron — I hope to have the pleasure of seing you soon at Boston, & I hope it will not be a great while before I see you placed in the Cheif seat of Government here, nothing in my power Shall be wanting to Effect it. My best Respects to Mrs Hancock, Mrs Cushing also sends her sincere Regards — I am with Respect [&c.]

P.S. Pray Inform me What Congress are doing with Respect to Supporting the Credit of our Paper Currency —