John Bradford to John Hancock, June 17, 1776

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Boston 17 th June 1776

Dear sir

I have not been Able to procure more than abot 50 Charldron Coal, Iapply'd to Gen Ward for liberty to take part of the White Haven Coal in this town but he tells me its not in his power to Grant my request I have wrote to Commr Hopkins agreeable to your directions. and the day his vessell arrives I will dispatch her with the Coal vessell,² I have sent to Dartmouth in quest of some & have hopes I shall Succeed

I have wrote to the Several Agents to imediately prepare their Accots for Settlement., but have personally Apply'd to Mess Glover and Bartlet they reply its impossible for them to Settle till they know from Philada he amot of the ordnance Brig's Cargo with that of the English Goods taken out of a prize by order of the General, when it Shou'd be Convenient please to order them Accounts forward.³ I have directed the Capns of the small Navy to make this port their Rendezvous, a [prize] ship is now coming in wch we suppose to be one of the transports⁴ [By] next post will give you the particulars in the Interim I am with Greatest Respect [&]

Jn Bradford

On the Service of the united Colonies ー

1. Walter Fuller Don Collection, SI.

2. See Esek Hopkins to Bradford, June 18, 1776, advising that Captain John Paul Jones, in the Continental sloop Providence, has been ordered to Boston as an escort for the coal ship.

3. Washington's agents wanted to know the amount of the invoice of the ordnance brig Nancy, and the value of the goods taken from the ship Concord, both captured in late 1775 by Capain John Manley in Washington's schooner Lee.

4. See Bradford's second letter of this day.

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1776 June 17

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