Sirs/
I understand your Going to Strip the Schooner Resolution I Dont Pretend to Direct you But think shee had Best Bee Loded With Bread Which you Now have Redy and Sent to Sum Market Where it Mout Be Sold to Advantage, and Loded home With Salt Perhaps shee May have a Second Sute of Sales that May answer, this Shall Leave to yore Beter Gugment from your Humbl Servant
Jesse Hollingsworth
[Baltimore] September 23 ー 1776
1. Red Book, XII, Md. Arch.