Letter from Admiral Hopkins to John Jenckes

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New-London, April 22, 1776.

SIR: Captain Allen Brown is here yet with your sloop, and without the coast is clear, I advise him to stay until he can be certain of getting round; but if you want to sell the molasses, I hear it will fetch three-eighths at New-York, where she may go safe, and perhaps be more for your advantage than her coming home. Your son is hearty, and behaves extremely well since he came on board our ship.

I am your friend at command,

ESECK HOPKINS,

To John Jenckes, Esq˙, at Providence.