Portsmouth 12th August 1776
Sirー
Your favour of the 8th instant I receiv'd ー by which I find you have directions to deliver Provisions for this Ship I've wrote to Messrs Breck & Hammott to receive it and send it round P Coaster. I am ordered to lay in Six Months Provisions and to keep that good, therefore you'll be good enough to spare as much as you can to Compleat the same. I gave an order on you in favour of Messrs Breck & Hammott for One hundred barrels beef one Do of Pork One hundred barrells of Flower, Fifty bls of Bread, five Casks of Rice, four or 5 Firkins of Butter &c the whole or as much of these Articles as shall be Convenient youll please forward ー I shall be very glad of about Twenty or thirty Hhds Salt, which youll please Order Ship't here for the use of the Continent, or deliver it to Messrs Breck & Hammott who will ship it ー I am with Respect [&c.]
John Langdon
To Charles Miller Esqr Commissary Boston
1. John Langdon Letter Book, Captain J. G. M. Stone Private Collection, Annapolis.
