Honerable Sir
I Received your Directions with Regard To the Ship Trumbull1 I Shall Sett out for N London on Monday in Order to See Capt Saltonstall2 on the Buisness and See the Situation of the Ship I Shall Use all Means possible in Order to Effect the the Gting her Over the Barr butt in the Mean Time would be Informed where I am to Gett A Supply of Money to Carrey on that Buisnessasthe Men Must be hired by the Day there.3 Being butt Sixteen Now on board Including Officers, Your Ansr. Pr Bearer will Oblige [&c.]
John Cotton
[Middletown, Conn.] Feby 26th 78.
L, Ct, Connecticut Archives, 1st Series, vol. 11, p. 565a. Addressed: "To His Excelency." Docketed: "Capt Cottens Letter."
1. Continental Navy frigate Trumbull in the Connecticut River at Saybrook. See Journal of Connecticut Council of Safety, 25 Feb., above.
2. Capt. Dudley Saltonstall, commanding the frigate Trumbull.
3. On 27 Feb. the Connecticut Council of Safety ordered Cotton paid £100 for the hire of men. He acknowledged receipt on 5 Mar. Ct, Connecticut Archives, 1st Series, vol. 11, p. 565b.
