Annapolis in Maryland 13th Jany 1776.
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Your are to proceed in the Brigantine Hannah of which you are Master with all Expedition to the Island of St Eustatia in the West Indies and there deliver your Cargoe to Mr Abraham Vanbebber to whom you go consigned & proceed further and act as he shall there direct you ー If Mr Vanbebber should not have arrived by the Time you get there you are to wait for him but if he should not arrive within six Days after your getting there then dispatch an Express to St Pierre in Martinico with the Letters for Mr Richard Harrison & Mr William McCreary and wait the Answer of one of them either of whose Orders you are to follow ー yet if Mr Vanbebber should arrive before you are taken up by one or other of those Gent. you are to be subject to him ー if you should send Express to Martinico advise Messrs Harrison & McCreary of the price of the Commodities you carry at Statia & whether any Quantity of Powder or other Warlike Stores may be had there & the price. ー You must on your Arrival at Statia call at the House of Richd D. Jennings and in Case of his Death or Absence at the House of Chalott & Bease where you may expect to meet with Mr Vanbebber or his Orders.
1. Executive Papers, Box 1, Md. Arch.