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we have Your favr of the 18th & 25 and Contents noted, the Pork we will take as we want it for the Privateteer, we cannot yet tell You what part we will get You in her but will get You a small Part if Possible, she is only a Pilot Boat & my Brother goes in her. You Possitively must get us four Swivell Guns for her,² we Proposed to our Council of Safety that they might Discharge the Brig if they would Pay the freight, we have not Yet got their answer, but believe they will Accept of it, if she Proceeds shall follow Your Directions,³ we Cannot get a Joe Under 6 7/6 pr piece therefore You must not Expect any under that Price, we Observe what You say about the Tea, and are of Opinion that we shall send the most of it to you, as the People here are the most Troublesome set of Rascals You ever knew, & at the same time not the Best whigs, the Shugar Brandy & rum, we will Receive and Sell for Your Acct. we wish You had not sent those Articles, as the sale will be Verry Tedious, & we are fearfull not to Your Advantage, Indeed the People here make as Little as Possible Serve them on Acct of the high Prices & Scarcity of money, none of Your Spirrit Yet sold, & we se[e] no possibility of its Selling, Neigher do we think, we Can send any of it to Virginia, as the English fleet Lies Directly in the River it must go into, upon the whole if You think it will sell with You, we think you had Better order some of it to Your Place, for fear You Loose the Sale of it,... there is a few three Pounders here, we will try to Engage the Preference of them  let us hear from You next post about them & the Price,...our Govenor is gone onbd a man of war that Came up for him, a bad Convention to let him go ー