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535) 545 M.r Cloud S.r These with my service to you and your wife and Prisilah this serves to lett you know of my said Misfortune that after Tenn weeks passage at sea on the first of January wee arrived near the Coast of Spaine in Greshiah and at that time our ship sprung a leake and we were forced to leave her and betake our selves to our Long boat which in a little time proved soe leaky that four Men could hardley keepe her free but the next day stopt a Great many Leakes And in Forty Eight hours wee gott to the shoar haveing saved not Cloaths nor shooe to my feet but our writing Truncks were we were Coursely Entertained by the spaniards and after some stay wee gott to a place where some English ships and Merchants were and after Three or four weeks stay the wind proved fair to Carry us whome but when wee Came on our Coast the wind took us short and put us to a place in Ireland called Baltemore where wee now have this opportunity to write to you about my Ruisnes to desire you to be mindfull and to gett what Tobacco you can or Bills of Exchange on good men and as for my Briganteen use you owne Discretion to Lett her or sell her at Two hundred Pounds sterling or Two hundred and fifty and you shall hear further by the first Oppurtunity when I gett whome the wind is now fair for us this has been a very bad year for shiping here is acco.tt of above Two hundred saile Cast away on our Coast and the Coast of France and flanders w.ch is all onely my service to you and your wife & Prisilah and all the family I rest yours my service to Cap.t Gerard and his wife and all in Generall whilst I am Edw.d Payne My service to Cap.t Warring and his wife I have writt to him to Assist you and I hope you will doe the like to him if occasion be I rest yo.rs E P I intend in by the first shipp next yext year if not shall write by them These For M.r Richard Cloud Liveing in wicocomiko River in Potomack in Maryland p.rsent Aprill y.e 1689 These This Indenture Made the fifth Day of December A.o 1688 Between Henry Denton of S.t Maries County in the Province of Maryland Gen.t of the one part and James Chisholm of the said County & Province Cooper of the other pt wittnesseth that the said Henry Denton for and Consideracon of Eight Thousand Pounds of Tobacco to him in hand Paid before the Ensealing and delivering of these Presents by the said James Chisholm well and truely paid the Receipt whereof hee the said Henry Denton doth hereby Acknowledge and himselfe therewith fully sattisfied Contented and paid thereof and of every part and pcell thereof |
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Provincial Court Land Records, 1676-1700
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