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... with pleasure assure you that by a Vessel of ours just arrd £rm France with 42,000 wt Pautler, Arms, Gunlocks & Salt we are inform'd rice is £8 10 p Ct & Indigo 49 / p lb this Curry . . .
Charles Town So Carolina 3d March 1777 To Saml Ph Savage Esqre President of the Honble the Board of War Boston
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 152, 85, Board of War Letters, 1776-1777.