The American Commissioners to the Committee of
Commerce
AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; two copies: National Archives
<Passy, July 29, 1778: We have received your letter of May 28
by Captain Reed [Read]. We rejoice at the arrival of even 49
hogsheads of tobacco, but wish for more. As we are under
contract with the farmers general to furnish 5,000 hogsheads,
for which we have already received a million livres, we have
consigned this small amount to them, rather than disposing of
it at private sale. We have no further directions for Capt. Reed
other than your orders to receive goods from Schweighauser.
Your orders of May 16 will be attended to. We learn from Mr.
Lovell’s letter of April 16 that Mr. Bingham is authorized to
draw on us for not more than 100,000 livres. We will honor
his drafts whenever we receive the order of Congress, but are
anxious about our funds.>
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