Baltimore Nov 26, 1777
[Extract] Dear Colonel,
. . . Captain Booker has gotten safe out I wish you success with this briggs I think it a good risque. John McClure informed me that he had wrote you fully about her.1 You have been unlucky in the Harlequin concern, that is the Schooner Harlequin Sloops General Marier [Mercer] & Black Jo[k]e (Take care how you deal in Black Joke)—All arrived and not one prize except a small Brigg loaded with fish belonging to the General Marcer of little value there will be considerable sum of money lost by these vessels. But to make up for your bad luck in these vessels the boats you are concerned in with W. Hammond arrived and Jam informed me have made great voyages But of this I make no doubt you have had a particular account. . . .
Jno Sterrett
Transcript, MdAA, Gist Papers, Box 1717-1802, Folder 20. Addressed below close: "To/Col Mordecai Gist/Camp N Y."
1. See John McLure to Mordecai Gist, 18 Oct. 1777, above.
