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You being Master of Our Sloop America bound for St aCroix with a Letter of Mark ー Our Orders are that you Imbrace every favourable Wind to gain your Passage and when You Arrive to Dispose of your Cargo to the best Advantage for our Interest, and layout all the nett proceeds, in the following Articles viz in Good rum, Ten or Twelve Good 4 lb Cannon, (if 4 lb Cannon cannot be got, get 6 lb ones)...
Date: 21 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your Favour requesting us to procure You an Iron Hearth or Cabose for the Ship of War under Your Care2 also requesting us to inform You whether You could be supplied with.12 lb Shot and what Price we gave the Riggers for Rigging the Warren & Providence we received and it has not been in our Power to reply thereto until now by Reason of Mr Mumford (who is the only Person who...
Date: 17 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We are now to acknowledge the Rect of Your Favours under the 28th Ulto & 6th Inst which came to our Hands but a few Days since, otherwise should have been replied to before We embraced the first Opportunity & Wrote Mr Mumford sending him an Extract of Your Letter desiring the Iron Caboose might be omitted & wishing that it might not do any Damage to him as we had no other Viewjn the...
Date: 15 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7