Commd Cont Ship of War the Providence now lying at Paimbeuf
Nantes 6th Aug 1778—
Sir
here are three young Lads who have presented themselves to go as Voluntiers aboard your frigate they go doun by this time to Paimbeuf in Order to apply to you for that purpose you will take them if they suit you they have begged I would give them a Line I am [&c.]
Schweighauser Contin Agent
Should they not Suit your Ship Mayhap Capt Tucker1 would enter them on his
LB, MiU-C, Abraham Whipple Papers. Addressed below close: “Abraham Whipple Esqr.”
1. Samuel Tucker, commanding the frigate Boston, then at Saint-Nazaire, the port of Nantes.
