Gentlemen.

This is to Acquaint you the Third day after the Sloop¹ Left Bedford [in Dartmouth] we came a Cross a Ship of Fourteen Guns and Fifty men we Engag'd her and fought her three Glasses but being Cutt and much shatterd to pieces was oblidg'd to Quit her. we had the misfortune to Loose poor Moses Casey in the Fray &four more Wounded this is Likewise to acquaint you the Eighteen of February we tooke a Schooner Transport from Hallifax bound to Newport Loaded with Codfish &Coal but was blown off the coast and was bound to Antigua we put a Prize Master on board and sent her to Martinico this is Likewise to acquaint you that the third of March we tooke another Schooner from Hallifax bound for Tobago her Cargo Consists of Sixty four Hogsheads & Eight Tierces of Codfish Eighty five Barrells of Pickled Fish & Seventeen hund^d feet of Lumber & Staves we Likewise put a Prize Master onboard of her & sent her to Martinico this is Likewise to Acquaint you we are now Cruising in the Latitude of Barbadoes and shall Cruise back and forth about Six Weeks Longer with the provisor we shoud not take any thing else till then and with the provisor we shoud take another Hallifaxman we shall go with her to Martinico if we should take a Britainer we shall proceed direct for America. This is to Acquaintyou that I have Orderd one half the proceeds to be laid out in Produce &the other half to be Shipt home in Cash I am Gentlemen Yours &^c