Saint Pierre, Martinique, Decem 11th. 1777.
(Copy) Gentlemen,
The present just serves to hand you Bill of Lading for fifteen Bales of Tents & Cloth, & one Hogshead of Medicine, which I have shipped on board the Schooner Rambler, Capt: Buffington, on Account of the United States. Capt: Buffington will sail from hence, (with several other American Vessels,) under Convoy of a French Man of War, which The General1 has been so obliging as to favor me with, who will conduct them clear of the Islands. I have addressed these Goods to the Continental Agent for the State of Maryland,2 who I have requested to give you the earliest Intelligence of their arrival. I am [&c.]
Wm Bingham
Copy, DLC, Continental Congress Miscellany, Box 1780-1790. Addressed: “The Honble/The Secret Committee of Congress." Docketed: “William Bingham Esqr./Decemr. 11th 1777."
1. Marquis de Bouillé.
2. William Lux, a merchant of Baltimore. JCC 4: 301.
