Letter from Joseph W. Harrison to the Maryland Council of Safety

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Port Tobacco, July 30, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: I have the happiness to inform you that the Molly, Captain Thomas Conway, is once more safely arrived in Great Wicomico, Virginia, with a fine cargo of arms and ammunition. The enclosed papers will furnish you with particulars. Captain Conway will remain at Port Tobacco till the express returns, waiting for your orders. My brother adventured in this vessel to the amount of £211 7s˙ 6s˙, Maryland currency. He writes the customary freight is ten per cent. If so, the amount shall be remitted by the first safe conveyance. The goods consist of twenty bolts of osnaburgh, nine barrels of powder, and seven small swords.

I am, very respectfully, gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servant,
JOS˙ W˙ HARRISON.

To the Honourable Council of Safety of Maryland.

N˙ B˙ Captain Conway had a passage of fourteen days.