The American Commissioners to the Eastern Navy Board
AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; two copies: National Archives
<Passy, July 29, 1778: We have received your letter of June 8
by Captain Barnes of the Dispatch, as well as the packets forwarded
by the Massachusetts Council. We have given orders
to Mr. Schweighauser to provide for the captain’s return
voyage and have ordered our banker to give a month’s pay to
him and his crew and an additional one hundred dollars to him
in lieu of primage, as you instructed. P.S. We are surprised at
the monstrous sum you want advanced to them here, in silver
and gold. If it is really your intention, we wish you had specified
the sums to be paid each individual.>
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