Memorandum of Agreement, That I Daniel Drinkwater of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland & State of Massachusetts Bay Mariner, do Contract & Agree to & with John Langdon of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire Merchant to deliver or cause to be deliver'd, to the said Langdons order the following Spruce Spars ー (vizt) Four of Sixteen Inchs each of Fifty eight feet in Length & Three Ditto of Twelve Inches or upwards & not less than Sixty feet in Length suitable for Booms ー as soon as possible, for which said Drinkwater is to be paid Six pence Lawf My P Inch for as many Inches as they measure on the delivery of the same at Portsmouth aforesaid ー Witness my hand September 20th 1776-.

NB. The above Contract is for the Continental Useー