Sir/

I recd yours of 3d Inst And According to your Order have Calld On Capt Dennis Concerning the 16 Inch Cable & find he has Not Engag'd it but desird I woud which I must Acquaint you is at Present out of my power, as is allso the Two Tons I wrote you about, for since yours of the 27th May the price of Common Cordage is rose to £ 4..10..0 & by your Not Concluding to take it till your last I did not Engage it

But what rigging I have made I shall send you by the Gentleman you Desird to Call on me who sails in a day or Two for which & what I shall send hereafter you Need Not Trouble yourself about the money till I have Compleated the Whole. But the Money for the Hauser,² I shall take it as a favour if youl remitt by the first Opportuny & You'l much Oblige [&c.]

Mr. Barnabas Deane at Weathersfeild in Conecticut