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War Office, Boston, December 14, 1776.
GENTLEMEN: The Board having occasion for a quantity of pork and beef, and hearing by Mr˙ Brown you inclined to contract, herewith send you the terms upon which any quantity within five hundred barrels of beef and one thousand barrels of pork, will be taken in: For good merchantable pork, three shillings, old tenour, per pound; for good merchantable beef, twenty-six shillings, lawful money, per hundred weight.
The Board allow four shillings per barrel for every good
In behalf of the Board:
SAM' L P˙ SAVAGE, President pro tem.
Colonel John Golding and Mr˙ Malachy Merril.
P˙ S. What money is necessary will be advanced, security for the performance of the contract being given.
Massachusetts Board of War to Colonel Golding
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white-oak barrel. The Board also find salt. It is expected the beef be delivered at Watertown. You will observe the pork must be delivered there also. The easiest and cheapest method will be to drive and kill near our magazine.