[Cadiz] 16th. April 78
Gentlemen
This P.G. will be handed you by Capt. A. Walsteame who Goes prize master of the Brig Taply1 whome I fell in with this morning she not being Worth sending to America have therefore determined on Sending her to your Address. & are to pray that youll in the best Manner you can sell her Cargoe & Invest its produce in salt & Other Articles which youll ship in same Vessell for Newburry port in No. AM to address of Messrs. Jackson Tracy & tracy, Ordering them to hold produce of said Goods at Disposall of the Crew and Owners of this Vessell I am [&c.]
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LB, UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/441/7, pt. 1. Addressed at top: “Messrs. Leacoutte & Co.”
1. Brig Tapley, Holt, master, 100 tons, built in 1765 and owned by Lewis & Co. It was on a voyage from Bideford, England, to Malaga, with a cargo of butter & ballast. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–78; The Public Advertiser (London), 11 May 1778; Letters and Papers of Gustavus Conyngham, opposite p. 152.
