Navy Board Eastern department Boston May 18. 1778
Sir
By this Conveyance I send you in Rhode Island Currency Two Thousand Seven hundred & ninety five dollars and one Sixth we cannot obtain any money from the Loan office but this we send have not more than five hundred dollars at the board and have more calls than ever for Cash wrote you a few days agoe have Nothing New to add am Respectfully—
Yours in behalf of the board John Deshon
P.S. In case of absence Colo. Tillinghast1 is directed to open this Letter & receive the Money & give you Credit for the Same
L, RNHi, William Vernon Papers. Addressed at foot: “Honble: Willm Vernon Esqr.”
1. Daniel Tillinghast, Continental Agent for Rhode Island.