Salem March 3d 1777
Sir
I received your letter of the 1st Instant informing me that the Board of War would take all the Woollen Goods Pease and Medicines taken on board the Prize Ship Royal Charlotte, and desiring I w ould send them up by the first opportunity; but I think it will be more regular for some person to be here in behalf of the Board to receive the Goods take an Accot of the quantity and see to the Shiping or transporting them to Boston. I should be glad you would send the Invoices which Mr [Miles] Greenwood gave you. There are not Invoices of all the Goods, particularly of the Woollens; I think therefore it will be necessary to fix the Price of them before the delivery of them. I am sir [&c.]
Joseph Lambert
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 152, 87, Board of War Letters, 1776-1777.