Dear Sir

I hope by this you have Recover'd your Hea[l]th, so as to be able to do Business &c ー

I sent you Fourteen hundd bushels of Salt to Providence, to the Care of Messrs Clark & Nightingale to be deliverd to your Order ー their is now two Vessells from N York with Flower & as the River is Shutt up, shall take it in to my Store, The Phoenix & Assia Men of Warr are both hal'd into the Docks att N York & its hourly Expected that the Communication to the Other Colonys will be cut of[f], the Captn of the Phoenix is a Senior officer to Vanderputt, & Sevearly Reprimanded him for letting the Flower Vessells Pass ー Capt Elisha Hinman, is Just Arived from Cape Francoise & says that Great Preparations for the Reception of Ten Thousand troops from France is makeing, Barracks Erecting &c. and that he see the Lists of the Regemts that were Comeing, and it was Said their was as many Expected to Martinico ー also that the Merchts. Exp[e]cted large Qtys of Powder out this Winter, I Just now heard that one of my Vessells had got into the Vineyard with three thousand wt & hope Soon to have the Pleasure of hearing that the Macaroni has Arived ー

I wish you the Complemts of the Season & am Dr Sir [&c.]