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I beg leave to refer you to my letter of the 2d. instant, and altho' I am not yet in the situation you prescribed for me to transact your Bussiness here, I am nevertheless induced, as well from the season of the year, as the reports of Captains Thompson & Green, to inform you, that the Ship Durass of near Eight hundred Tons Burthen, wch. is here for sale, wou'd be a...
Date: 7 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . .the Ship Duras,1 (I mention'd to you in my last letter to be for Sale here) I find on enquiry to be too old for any proffitable purpose.—the expences that wou'd attend her repair, wou'd be more than adequate to her value when properly fitted, altho' her Rigging & Cannon are in tolerable good order. . . .
Date: 23 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I am not honor'd with the receipt of any of your favors since my last to you of the 23d. current.1
I am this day informed, that Government has order'd 2,000 Seamen to be raised in Nantes & 2,500 more in St. Malo, besides a number of Bakers of this Town, wch. are all to proceed immediately to Brest; likewise, that there are positive directions in all...
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Your favors addressed to Messrs. Gourlade & Moylan of the 5th. & 9th. Currt. are now before me,1 I wou'd have reply'd to the former on it's receipt, had I thought it wou'd have met you at Brest. The 7th. inst. I wrote Mr. Le Ray at Pont L'Abbé, desiring his care of Joseph Ratcliff the Boy you...
Date: 12 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Mr. Bersolle writes me from Brest the 19th. inst. that his advances for acct. of the Ship Ranger are heavy, and desires me point out to him a house in Paris on wch. he may draw for their amount. I write him this post to take your Bills on the Honorable Commissioners, or on me, payable in Paris, but that if he can defer the same untill your...
Date: 24 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I beg leave to refer you to my last1 of the 23d. inst. since wch. I am without any of your favors.
The Frigate Oiseau brought into this port a privateer Brig of 16 Guns belonging to London2 wch. she had taken a few days since at Belle Isle, very fortunate for the Ship Harmony Hall Cap: Alderson loaded with 112 Hhds Tobacco 100...
Date: 30 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11