Port Lewis July 13th. 1778.-
Sir
I with pleasure received yours of the 7th. Inst.-1 & am very happy of our agrement, and shall wait on you at the Rivers2 mouth as soon as I get Orders from Parris, I have not heared from my Lieut- since he left this3 and I am a little troubled about my Marines being taken out of my Ship; they being Frenchmen which shews the Virtue of our Alliance.—4 Sir I have enclosed you a Coppy from the Regulations of Congress of the Distribution of Prize Money,5 and remain with due Respect [&c.]
Saml Tucker
LB, MiU-C, Abraham Whipple Letter Book. Addressed: “To/Abraham Whipple Esqr-/Commander of the Providence/Frigate Att/Nantz.” Docketed: “Capt Whipples Letter/from/Capt Tucker July 13 1778/Copied--.”
1. Whipple to Tucker, 7 July, above.
2. That is, the Loire River.
3. In his letter to the American Commissioners of France, 14 July, below, Tucker acknowledged having just received a letter dated 8 July from Lt. Musco Livingston.
4. On the controversy concerning the Frenchmen serving as Continental Marines with Boston, see Tucker to the American Commissioners in France, 14 July, below.
5. Whipple had requested these regulations in his letter to Tucker of 7 July.