War Office Boston Feby 11th. 1778
Gentlemen
The foregoing is a Copy of ours1 by the Briga. Nantes Captn. Chapman.2 we have only now to confirm the same, and desire you would send us in each of the Ships, ordered back with Salt, and by the Nantes 5 or 6 Tons of good Cordage from 4 Inches down to a Ratlin—We are [&c.]
By order the Board Saml Phips Savage President
LB, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 151 (Letters from the Board of War, 1776-1780), p. 157. Addressed at foot: "Messrs. Morris Pliarne Penet & Co.."
1. See Massachusetts Board of War to Morris, Pliarne, Penet & Co., 20 Jan., above.
2. Massachusetts State trading brigantine Nantes, Capt. Joseph Chapman, commander.
