Philadelphia, August 21, 1776.
[Extract]
P.S. One [William] Woodcock, at Wilmington, has been speaking to me about a privateer he was applied to to build by Captain [Charles] Pope. He says he has a parcel of carpenters sent to him and cannot go on for want of the iron-work, rum, &c. Some person among you ought to go immediately and enter into a contract with him and find the means of supplying him.
1. Ryden, ed., Letters to and from Caesar Rodney, 104-05.
