Gentlemen

Your very much esteemed favours of 25th April & 13th May came safe to hand are now before [me] whose Contents I note: They have served to answer the desired Effect and I find myself under every obligation to your Honourable House for your favourable opinion of my Conduct. The Vessels mention'd address'd to my care are not arrived, if any of them should be fortunate enough you may depend they will have quick dispatch. I wrote you the 24th May by Capt Isaac Caton in a Ten Gun Sloop bound to Charles Town So Carolina by whom shipped you fourteen thousand three hundred wt of Gun Powder I likewise wrote you the 13th June by Capt Martin & Shipped sixteen thousand three hundred wt of Powder this Martin is in a Ten Gun Brigantine and has a very considerable Cargo on board for the Province of Maryland dayly hope & expect to hear of his arrival. I have debeted Messrs Lux & Bowly to your Colony's Cr[edit] for £ 1015 ー by advice from them & have received a Bill from Mr John Dixon on Mr Webb for 600 Dollars but not heard of its acceptance. I intend to give you a State of your Acct with me, by the next opportunity and shall pay the Balla[nce] to VanBibber & Harrison who we have already inform'd you had enter'd into a Partnership in order to strengthen our Credit that we may be more enabled to comply with and Fecilitate the Commands of our Country and supply their many Wants ー therefore in future beg you'd direct Your favours for either of us to V B & H S[t.] Pier's Martinique I intend continuing here, but think it not so safe for Vessels to get into as the other Places mentioned. I am [&c.]