[Baltimore] Febry 7th 1775
[Extract]
Annexed you have Copy of what I wrote you the 29th Janry to which be Referd, Since then have Recvd yours of the 16th and 25th November and note the Contents it is not in my power in this paper to Answer you fully. I have not been able to get a Vessel to ship a Grean of Wheat for ford,2 and as the Schooner will not be with you till may3 perhaps you Could get a Vessel to Bring out the Convicts &c. and if Fords should be Complated have liberty to send her Elsewhare. I am glad there is a Vessel Coming out for some part of the Order (was she here now I could have her loaded) but you will see ere this by the 10th Article of our Congress4 that I have Reason to tremble about the Salt . . . . Titcombs Sloop is here5 But we shall not get much by her however a little helps its unfortunate I can not get a Vessel, as wheat is plenty Wheat 6/10 Some thinks it will fall but I think not. Flour 17/ Expected down if the Roads were good. We have had no winter a yet. Ex 60 dull and Expected down
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.
2. James Forde, merchant of Drogheda, Ireland.
3. The schooner Industry, which sailed January 9 for Antigua.
4. The Tenth Article of the Continental Association, forbidding imports from Great Britain, Ireland and the British West Indies after December 1, 1774.
5. Sloop Cumberland, Joseph Titcomb, master, from Falmouth, Province of Maine.