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You being Factor for the Cargo on board the Sloop Unity under your Command bound for the West Indias my orders and advice are that you make all the Dispatch you possibly Can dureing the whole Voyage, and to touch first either at St Eustatia, St Lucia, Martinico or Guadalope as you may find, the Winds to hang and Other Circumstances as you may think best, and there or any Other Place you may touch...
Date: 31 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I am not Certain whiter I sufficiently urged the Advantages of Geting Powder & Guns with bu[e]yonets especially the latter if to be got, tho' very high & more Especially if they Should be to be had On My Credit as Ordd As Also to Balist with Brimstone if to be got, & salt Peter is worth half a Dolr p lb here or More ー You Will remember by a Resolve of Congress the Value of the Powder...
Date: 11 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3