New London April 22nd 1776
Sir
Captn Allen Brown is here yet with your Sloop, and without the Coast is clear I advise him to stay untill he can be certain of getting round-but if you want to Sell the Molasses I hear it will fetch 3/8 at New York where she may go Safe, and perhaps be more for your Advantage than her coming home. Your Son is hearty and behaves Extremely well ever Since he came onboard our Ship-2 E.H.
1. Hopkins Letter Book, RIHS.
2. Rufus Jenckes, midshipman, who was entered November 20, 1775, having come from Rhode Island in the Katy.
