Sir,
I recd yours by your boy respecting the swivils Borrowd for the Use of the American Navey. Doubtless you remember when I recd your Guns, it was agreed that if they should be Lost, I was to see you paid four pounds for the pair, agreeable to that I maid my return to General Washington I therefore Cannot of my self pay a great Prise. I think if I mistake not I gave you a Receipt for that amount which if you will receive, I will Desier Capt Wm Bartlett to Pay. I am Sir [&c.]
Beverly, Feby. 29. 1776
John Glover.
1. "Documents and Letters by Actors in the American Revolution," from the Jeremiah Colburn Autograph Collection, New-England Historical and Genealogical Register (Boston, 1876), XXX, 332.
