To Be Sold At Public Vendue On Monday the 25th inst. at 2 o'clock P. M.
The cargo of the ship John consisting of sugar, rum, cotton, indigo, turtleshell, mahogany and fustick; the sale to be at Norwich Landing, and to continue from day to day, until the whole be disposed of.2
New London, Nov. 7, 1776.
1. Connecticut Gazette, November 8, 1776.
2. The state of Connecticut bought the rum and "fifty hogsheads of sugar." Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Public Records of the State of Connecticut ... 1776-1781 (Hartford, 1894-1922), I, 60, 73. Hereafter cited as Hoadly, ed., Connecticut State Records.
