Norwich [Conn.] June 13th. 1778
Sir
Mr. Harris Informs me that you have Some Paints of Diferent kinds Sutable for The Ship I am building.1 if you Can Spare them Should be glad you would Tell Mr. Harris have Such As he thinks will be wanting for the Ship, If you have any Oakum to Spare Pleass to Send itt by Braddock2 Pleass to Send a Bill of the Paints & Oakum I have a note of hand agt: your Brother3 for abt. £430. Can I have the money If I send. I much Want Itt—Your [&c.]
Joshua Huntington
NB. Don't forgitt Poor Capt Ingraham in N York. he is very Sick & will not Live Long Unless he Can be Exchanged Pleass to write for him in Particular &c you will much oblige your Friend
J. Huntington
He is onboard the Ship good Intent—}4
L, CtY, Nathaniel and Thomas Shaw Papers, packet 138, no. 8793, Addressed on cover: "Mr. Thomas Shaw—/New London—." Addressed at top: “Mr. Shaw." Addressed below close: "To Mr. Thomas Shaw." Docketed: “Joshua Huntington/Letter/June 14 1778."
1. Continental Navy frigate Confederacy.
2. John Braddock (or Braddick).
3. Nathaniel Shaw Jr., Continental Agent for Connecticut.
4. Good Intent was a former British transport pressed into service as a prison ship at New York. Edwin G. Burrows, Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the Revolutionary War (New York: Basic Books, 2008), pp. 92–93.
