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it is with Satisfaction that I Can acquaint you of my arrivel here on the Eighth Instant I have Done my utmost Endeavors for to get to the northward but it was not in my power the weather proved so Very Bad after I got as far to the nord as Hatterass I was obligd to Send of [stand off] as far as the Lattd of 28 and finally Got in here after being out thirty odd Days as the Vessel provd Very leaky...
Date: 9 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
New London February 12. 1778 Received of Nathaniel Shaw Junr. thirty three hundred pounds Lawfull Money on Accott. of my Prize Money due for two Cruses in the Sloop American Revenue Under my Command—the Ballance to be paid as Soon as the Law Suit depending att Congress is Settled—1
Date: 12 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I take this oppertunity by Colonal Norton1 to write you of our proceeding Since we2 got here we have not had [a] wind that we Could Get to Sea with [torn] we left New London but are all Ready now for the first wind that presents.
we have got now on bord 73 hands which is the whole of our Crew but Expect two or three more if we Should not have a wind to Day but you may Depend...
Date: 13 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11