Sir
Wellfleet March 13th 1776
I have inclos'd you an Estimate of the several Losses I have sustain'd by the Ministerial Ships. 2 the Vessells I lost were employ'd in carrying Oysters to Cohasset for the Benefit of the Continental Army. I have waited some Time for a convenient Opportunity to transmit an Estimate of my former Loss, since which I have suffer'd the latter, which was the very Vessel that was cast ashore at Scituate and got off again, & then taken by the Man of War I am Sir [&c.]
Thos Holbrook
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 194, 283, NA Photocopy.
2. Ibid., 284, Holbrook's estimate was confined to one vessel, and reads as follows: an Estimate of the Value of the Schooner Malley burthen about thirty Tons taken by a Man of War the 23d of February off Scituate Harbour & carried to Boston ー the said Schooner belonging to the Subscriber of Wellfleet Native £106.13.4 Law Money.
Thos Holbrook Barnstable ss March 13th: 1776 Then Thomas H~lbrook made Oath to the Truth of the above Estimate by him Subscribed to before Me ー
Jno Alwood Justis peace
