Boston, August 17 1776
[Extract]
As to news we go on Briskly taking prizes. We have a plenty of Sugars. Within these ten days Sugars have fallen from 4 pounds to 3 and 2.5 by the hundred. A Brigg was carried into Newburry this Week, from Antigue laiden with Indigo and hides, and a Jamaca Man carried into Marble Head.2...
1. Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence, II, 98.
2. The vessel carried into Newburyport was the ship Nancy, George Keys, master; her cargo was sugar and rum. The vessel carried into Marblehead was not a "Jamaca Man, " but the brig Perkins, William Jenkins, master, with indigo and hides. Mrs. Adams had her vessels and cargoes reversed.
