New London Sepr 26th 1776
Sir
The barer Daniel Deshon is a Person who has Saild in my Imploy Several Years last Past & has behav'd himself well as a Seaman, and last April was taken by the Scarborough Man of Warr in a Schooner that I Imported Powder in for the Continent. ー2
I think he is Qualified for a Second Lieutenants birth in the Brigg Defence, & if your Honour has no objection should be Glad he may have an Appointmt to that office ー I am Sir [&c.]
Nathl Shaw Junr
1. Conn. Arch., 1st Series, IX, 315, ConnSL.
2. The John and Joseph. See Volume 4.
