Sir

We are favoured with yours of the 15^th. and regrett our inability to Supply you with money as much as you possibly [torn]n.—

Since our last of the 12thJ'ohn Deshon Esqr has been in Town and took with him all the Loan office Certificates that we were possessed of except 2500 dollars in order to get Exchanged for Continental money in the States of Rhode Island and Connecticutt to pay the officers and men belonging to the Warren that Escaped from Providence last Monday night was a week throh the Fire of the Enemys Ships that lay in the passage—

M^r Deshon sat out last Saturday morning in expectation of meeting the Warren at New London.

We have (being truly Sensible of your necessitous calls for money) Sent you by M^r Noble in Certificates Fifteen hundred dollars of what remains with us being every hour in expectation of a Supply of money which we shall not fail giving you Notice thereof soon as comes to hand—We are [&c.]