New London March 25th. 1778
Gentlemen
I have Agreed with Mr. Nathaniel Shaw Junr. or my Sixteenth Concern in the Briggtn Trumbull now Building att Norwich Landing and would have you Accott With him for the 1/32 part of the Duck & Cordage which Capt Billings1 brot. home which was 1/32 part of the Avails of the Sloop Trumbull2 and also for One hundred and Twenty pounds in Cash paid you the 10th. of Febuary last3 as ⅌ Rect. and You'l Oblige [&c.]
Seth Harding
L, CtY, Nathaniel and Thomas Shaw Papers, packet 56, no. 3581. Addressed at foot: "To Messrs. Howland4 & Coil5 Agents/for Brigg: Trumbull." Docketed in Shaw's hand: "Capt Hardings/Order/on Howland & Coit." Docketed in another hand: "3581."
1. Capt. Henry Billings, commanding the Connecticut privateer sloop Trumbull.
2. Sloop Trumbull was sold by Capt. Henry Billings to Patrick Moore at Martinique and renamed Ranger. See Nathaniel Shaw, Jr., to Patrick Moore, 26 Feb., above.
3. See Receipt of Nathaniel Shaw, Jr., to Captain Seth Harding, 25 Mar., immediately below.
4. Joseph Howland.
5. Thomas Coit.
