Watertown Thursday May 18 1775
Sir
I have now to inform you, that having communicated the proposed Adventure P your Vessell to the proper Persons, they have authorized me to advise you that they will be concerned therein, for which Purpose I shall return to your Place, where I expect to be by Thursday next or sooner if possible, therefore desire you will keep her till that Time.2
I am [&c.]
Wm Thompson
please to change the Guineas I left into Jos3
1. Shaw Collection, Packet No. 3, YUL.
2. Schooner Macaroni, William Packwood, master. See Thompson to Shaw, May 12, 1775.
3. Johannes, a Portuguese gold coin, worth then about nine dollars.