War Office Boston 25th Feby 1778
Gentlemen
This, please God, will be deliverd you by Capt. Luther Turner in our Ship Adams,1 by whom you will receive Letters from our Mutual Friends Messrs. John I Cripps & Mey Merchants in Charlestown So. Carolina2 Inclosing Invoice & Bill Lading of a Cargo of Rice, which we wish safe to your hands.—You will please to dispose of the Cargo to our best Advantage and dispatch the Ship directly Back. ballast with Salt to which you will Add an Assortment of such Articles as mentiond below. You will be kind eno' to send us the Masters Receipts for such Moneys as you may furnish him with to his men, & other disbursments.—We are very Respectfully [&c.]
Sam Phps Savage Presdt. By order of the Board.—
⅌ the Adams Capt Luther Turner Three Point Blanketts Blue Cloth White do proportioned 7/8 blue 1/16 Red 1/16 White Red do for Soldiers Cloths,— Stout large Shoes & Stockings of a Good Quality for Soldiers— Linnen for Shirting for do. from 30s to 50s sols Ravens Duck Ticklenburghs Cordage of Different Sizes from 1 to 4 Inches,—
LB, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 151 (Letters from the Board of War, 1776-1780), pp. 160-61. Addressed at top: "Messrs. Morris, Pliarne Penet & Co."
1. Massachusetts State trading ship Adams.
2. John S. Cripps and Florian Charles Mey.
