Shipped in good order and well conditioned by the Council of Safety of Mary Land, in & upon the good Schooner called The Friendship, whom of is Master for this present Voyage John Gibbons-and now riding at Anchor at the Port of Annapolis, bound to the Island of Saint Eustatia to wit, twenty Hogsheads of Tobacco, four hundred and twenty one Barrels of fine Bur Flour, ten Barrels of Superfine Flour, two hundred Barrels of Bread & two thousand, eight hundred White-Oak Hogshead Staves being marked & numbered as in Margin,2 & to be delivered in the like good order, and well conditioned, at the aforesaid Port of Saint Eustatia — unto Messrs Vanbibber & Harrison or their Assigns. — In Witness whereof the Master of the said schooner hath affirmed to the Bills of Lading, the one of which said Bills being accomplished, The other to stand void: Dated at Annapolis this 6th Day of December 1776
John Gibbons
1. Executive Papers, Box 2, Folder 90, Md. Arch.
2. The items are listed in the margin but not numbered.
