The Andrew Doria has sent in here a sloop from Tortola, bound to Halifax, with twenty-two hogsheads of rum, twenty barrels of sugar, twentysix tierces of molasses, and 950 bushels of salt.2 The Cabot also sent in a ship two days ago, from Jamaica, bound and belongs to Liverpool in England, with one hundred and fifteen puncheons, and twenty-two hogsheads of rum; eighty-four hogsheads, twenty tierces, and eighteen barrels of sugar; twenty tierces of coffee; sixty bags and two casks of pimento; two hundred bags and ten casks of ginger; one hundred and eighty two bags of cotton; and forty-eight raw hides.3
1. Pennsylvania Evening Post, June 18, 1776.
2. The sloop Two Friends, Abraham Copeland, master.
3. The ship True Blue, James Stable, master. In the Hopkins Papers, RIHS, is "A True Manifest of the Ships Cargo, Call'd the True Blue, Taken by the Cabbit Capt [Elisha] Hinman on the 28th May Last, in Lattd 33. Longd. 6. & brought into this Harbour by Capt [David] Phipps, the 8th June 1776." It tabulates the contents of the cargo as given above.
