(seq. 24)

Boston 17^th May 1745

{Doctor} Walley Chauncy

Sir
Have rec'd none from you since Bacon. This may
serve to inform you that we have at last light of a Sloop to sent to {Colonel}
{Benjamin} Payton & {Captain} Stone accord^g to their Subscriptions & expect {Mister} Jones will
putt in the Number he proposed to subscribe for & hereby you will have an
opportunity to ship my Effects as you proposed. It is with very great diffi=
=culty we have got a Vessell for I never knew Vessells so scarce in my Life. I
am intirely a Stranger to {Mister} Jones but am acquainted he is a good sort of a
man. If you think so should be very glad of your Recommendation to him
& should be very glad to serve him. As to {Colonel} Payton & {Mister} Jones what they [freight?]
upon this Vessell, cant expect they will consign me Singly, but for the future
should be glad to transact their Business myself & doubt not but I should suit
them. Hope they have their Tarr ready so as not to detain the Vessell upon
their acc^tts. Suppose you have seen {your} Sloop. I have sent to {Mister} Guin {Captain} Bacon
Master. Would be glad you would afford {Captain} Bacon what assistance. If she
should not suit {Mister} Guin have order'd her to {Colonel} Payton [&?] would stand a Third
of her myself. She is a good Vessell & cheap. I suppose {Mister} Guin is a substantial man
& is well able to pay for the Vessell. Should be glad of your advice herein.

We have had no News from the Fleet lately gone on the expedition, but hope
they have done something before now. We are all well. Father & Mother give
their Love to you & all the Family & I am w^th due Esteem,

Sir
{your} Very {humble} {Servant}

{per} {Captain} Morton

Boston 30^th May 1745

{Messers} Sitwell Noyes & Comp^y

{Gentlemen}
This acknowledges the above as Copy of my
last {per} {Captain} Craige & Dudding, which suppose you have not rec'd, inasmuch
as we have heard they are taken, to my great Disappointment. I have now
Inclosed Copy of the above Inv^o w^ch hope will be well bo^t & shipt {per} first Vessell
for Boston. I have wrote you {per} {Captain} Durell & Darling & Nicholson for a [?]
26 yards Blue Mazarene superfine Broad Cloth @ 16/6 [?] [7?]/. y^d sterling, with [?]
of fine Shalloon suitable to the cloth & a bagg of fashionable Buttons with Twist
& 6 [?] english Sole Leather a 2/. [per}. Am sensible these things are out of your way,
but as they are for my own wear, should be particularly oblidged to you, if
you would get them for me. These Vessells are not as yet sailed, as the
Man of Warr {Captain} [D?]urell is not ready to sail, being at Cape Breton assisting
Commadore Warren in taking it & ha[?] this opportunity I thought would
send you Copy of what I then wrote. {Mister} Hubbard has wrote you {per} this
Conveyance, concerning our Schooner Dolphin. {Captain} {Richard} Waite, to which
I referr you, would begg the favour of you to insure what you send me.

Doubt not if this small Inv^o should suit, but that I should send you for
Considerable in your Way & remitt you to your Satisfaction, & in any
Concerns this way, am with offers of Service & Respect

{Gentlemen}
{your} Very {humble} {Servant}

{per} {Captain} Freeman