Baltimore Jany 24 1777
Gentlemen
this is to Inform You of the Safe Arivel of the Brig Ann Amos Mansfield master the master mate and men decline Going to France I have sold her Sugars for sumthing more than Six pounds up on an Avereg and have apply'd to Purvience for Pig Iron which they have purchesd for You I shall Take On board the Brig "about Twenty Tun and fil her up as sune as Possiable with Flower it is Very Scarse here and dont think it possiable to Lode her under Fifteen or Twenty Days Flower is Twenty shillings and rising there is A Schooner Arived here this day belonging to the Bord of War from Boston which was drove onshore near Cap henery by Two British Men of War about Six days Ago and is Got of[f] with out any dameg only Lusing A Cable and Anchor which is the furst Account we have had of Any Men of war being of [f] this Coste I Cant Remember the Capt name but she had Forteen Cask of Sugar and Six or Eight Cask of Rum 2 Gentelmen I am with Respect [&c.]
Holton Johnson
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 152, 32, Board of War Letters, 1776-1777.
2. See Samuel Arnold to the Board of War, January 29.