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Sir ー  I waited on you monday last to desire permission to transport some hay which I was going to make on an island called Gallop's which makes one part of Nantasket road, near where one of the Kings ships is now at anchor, which you told me cou'd not be granted before you had consulted the General, and you wou'd give me an Answer on wednesday ー I had the honor of seeing the General before that time and (finding that he had not the least objection to my taking my property and removing it to Boston) I immediately acquainted you with the answer I had received. As there did not appear to be any objection to my cutting the grass and making the hay I yesterday employed a number of men for the business, and was going to apply for leave for them to pass the King's ships to the island, but Mr Thomas (who is employed by Goverment to cut hay on other islands in the harbor for the King's use) told me he had applied for leave for a number of hay-makers and you had forbid any persons from going on the water to land on the islands, in consequence of which the men employed by him, and those which I engag'd were idle all the day. ー I shall be much oblig'd to You if you will be pleased to let me know if any and where the difficulty lays of my sending the men hired by me to cut the grass and make my hay that I may remove it. ー Inclosd is a list of the names of those people employed by me ー for whose conduct I will be answerable. I am &ca