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Since I wrote you Capt. Harden [Seth Harding] is arived from his Cruise has taken two fine Ships one of them Safe arived at N L [New London] She is Loaded with Sugar, Rum Coffey and Cotton Supposed to be worth fifteen thousand pounds the Other prize is daily Expected; [Robert] Niles 2d Prize is not arived and Suppose is most Likely Taken your Brother obtaind so Little part of Mr. [Nathaniel] Shaws Privateer that he keeps it himself.

your Brig'e is Like to be fitted as a Letter of Mark and so proced on a Trading voige...