[Baltimore] 30 April 1775
[Extract]
I wrote you already by this Conveyance of the brig Mary Carrol for Cork & yrs port Loaded with wheat & flour2 Since then have Recvd yrs by Norwood Yesterday,3 Kenne[d]y also arrivd here Yasterday4 & I believe shall get a Good freight for him, G[eorge] D[arley] has Rubed me a little about not being more particular about Vessells that are Loading here to you however you shall not Complain hereafter the Schooner will go in Eight days5 I am glad Kennedy has so few Servants as the demand for them is gone Since the Boston news came I shall answer your letter by Norwood soon . . . there are two brigs. Whate & Flour Loaded ready to Sail for Bristol which with the Vessell that Carries this, will all go together, . . . true prices Wheat 6/3 flour 14/4 but do you Quote them higher at same time I think it must fall soon as there is some suspition that Congress will Stop Exports next month . . .
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.
2. Brig Mary Carroll, Peter Simonds, master, cleared for Dublin on May 1, 1775.
3. Ship Hercules, John Norwood, master, from Dublin, with 119 servants, entered, April 27, 1775.
4. Ship Baltimore Packet, Alexander Kennedy, master. Its entry is not shown in the Maryland Port of Entry Eooks, 1745-75, MdHS.
5. Schooner Industry.