Weth[ersfiel]d 3d March 1777
D'r Sir,
On the Desire of Capt Lester I write you at this time In Regard to Long pine Timber for the Frigate Under Your Direction.2 My advice is that there Should be no time Lost in Sending high up on Connecticut River and procuring the Masts Yards and Long pine timber for plank which if not got Down the River in the Springtime Cannot be got at any Other Season. Also that Mr Jonathan Bush is gone up for to get pine Timber for the frigate to be built at Chatham 3 and that he would be a Suitable person to Employ in that Service if you Should think proper to Send.
Please to Excuse the Liberty I have Taken and Believe me to be D'r Sir [&c.]
Bar's Deane
P.S. Excuse haste the Bearer being Waiting.
1. "Huntington Papers," Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, 1923), XX, 54.
2. Confederacy.
3. Bourbon.