Sir

You being Master of the Sloop Sally and Ready for the Seas, My orders & Directions are that you Imbrace every Good Oppoty to Gain your Passage in the Most safest way you Can According to the best of Your Judgment, To St Croix & There Dispose of your Cargo to the Best Advantage & take a few hhds of the very best Sugar not to Exceed 10 hhds and fill up your Vessel with Good Rum, which you will Indeavour to purchase without Cask and put the same in your Own Casks wch you are to get Made Out of the White Oak Shaken hhds you have on bord and the remainder of your Cargo you Will lay out in 3 / 4 Cannon & 1/4 pistle Powder If to be had Cheep enough to Ansr wch you Will not Exceed ½ pr 8 P lb ー but expect it will be for much less if So you Will layout all the Money you have more than to purchas the Sugar & Rum as Aforesaid In Powder, and Small Arms, wch you are to pick up whereever you Can & May buy any part of a Gun locks or Barrels or any Parts You Can get, if Reasonable, If yu find the Is.land in Grait Want of any thing you have, you Must Demand Powder & arms for it-You must Take Grait Care to Imploy the very best of Coopers who will be Carefull to make your Cask Tight, If the Powder & arms is not to be had reasonabbly You have Liberty to lay out the remdr Your Money in Any Sorts of Goods wch you May think will Answer best ー According to the best You Judge as, Steel, Course Linnen, (but not fine Linen) Checks, Hankerchiefs, pins, paper, pepers, nutmegs, Cotton, Ravens Duck &c &c You are to be exceeding Cautious About getg home & fall in to the Back of Nantucket or Vinyard & after you get in to Some Safe Harbore to give Me Notice if you find you Cant Come with Safety into this Colony..:. Your Commissions for doing the Buissness is to be 5 pCt for Sales & 2½ for Returns, be sure to make no bad Debts, or leave none behind ー Your Priveledge Out is to be 2m. of Hoops wch you are to take the Chance of with All on Deck as well as those in your hold & to loose a proportion as yours: Bears to the Whole if any loss & 8 hhds of the Common size with Cargo [blurred.] If Anything Shod happen with you to Render you Incapapable of doing the Buisness Your Mate is to take the Command & follow these My Orders ー If your Vessel wont Load with Rum & Sugar As Aforsd you'l take Some Smaller, as Beer Casks &c filled with Rum to fill up-Wishing a Good Voyage & safe Return, Am yr [&c.]

N Brown [Endorsed] Recd a Copy the foregoing wch I promis [to] Observe & do my best to follow ー Rembr Simmons