Sir

I receiv'd yours, and have enquired, and find that there is no light Duck onboard the Ship Captn Manly told you of — but there is a fourteen Inch Cable of about One Hundred & twenty or thirty fathom which has never been used though it has been onboard a Year — the Captn of the Ship tells me it was made in London and he thinks it a very good one — I spoke to Mr Tillinghast the Agent here and he says if it Suits you, You may have the Cable for the same Weight in other Rigging, or for what he gives for Rigging here, which is the extravagant Price of twenty dollars p hundd -but as the greatest part of it belongs to the Continent it is no great matter as to the price — If the Cable should Suit you please to write to Mr Daniel Tillinghast, as I shall go to Newport to morrow and perhaps to Sea before I return — I am with great Respect Sir [&c.]