Providence July 3d 1775
Sir/
If there is any Powder to be Bought at Surrinam, you are Directed to Purchase, on my Acco Three Thousand Guildors worth, & Ship the same on Board Capt Silvanus Jenckes (if you have Effects to that amount of mine in your Hands,) who is Directed to Mr John Brown, to take it on Board at the rate of one Dollar p Hundred freight.
Your Humle Sert
John Jenckes
1. Nicholas Brown Papers, JCBL.