Gentlemen.

We wrote to you about a Week ago, requesting you to return Three Guns you borrowed from the Sloop Race Horse, our Captain informs us that he has waited on your Honble Board for an Answer to that Letter, but supposes you have been so much engaged that you could not attend to it. We beg leave therefore to renew our Request that you would be pleased to return said 3 Guns, as we are in pressing Want of them, & fear that our Sloop which we are anxious to send to Sea, will be detained on this Account. We are sorry to be this troublesome, but Affairs are so critical that we must wave Ceremony. We are Gentlemen [&c.]

[Endorsed] Captain [Joseph] Blewer knows nothing more of these Guns than that they were delivered in the State house yard to Mr Paneass and by him to Mr Hiles ー