On Board the Boston Frigate June 19th. 1778
Gentn.
This my first oppertunity of sending you since I came out from France which was on the 13th Inst. may serve to inform your Honours of my Situation which is very disagreable and has been since I left Boston with Respect to my People[’s] dissatisfaction,—there as been a Consparicy carried to a great Length, but fortunately discovered it the day before sailing from Bourdeaux, which I wrote the Honble. Commissioners at Paris.1 I had the Confiderates of Bourdeaux imprisoned and beleive they will be Banished if not hung.
Gentn. these may be handed you by Mr. Goss2 who will give you a just Account of my Situation, Gent. I am in a great hurry seeing a Sail to Windward but still Remain [&c.]
S. Tucker
LB, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (MS Am 812), Letter Book. Addressed below close: “To the Honble. Navy Board/East Dept. Boston—/[illeg.]ty.”
1. See Tucker to the American Commissioners in France, 28 May, in NDAR 12: 771.
2. See Tucker to Midn. Joshua Goss, this date, immediately below. Since the prize ship that Goss was bringing to America was recaptured, the Board probably never received this letter from Tucker.
