[Braintree] Monday April 7. 1777
[Extract]
My Brother is going Captain of Marines on board MacNeal.2 I hear there has been an inquiry at the Counsel Board why he has not saild before? and that the blame falls upon the continental Agent.3
1. Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence, II, 202.
2. Continental Navy frigate Boston.
3. Later, in a letter begun May 6 and concluded May 9, 1777, Abigail corrected herself regarding her brother, William Smith: "I was mistaken in my Brothers going with MacNeal. He is going in the Tarter [American Tartar] a vessel which mounts 24 Guns, is private property but sails with the Fleat," Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence, II, 232.
