TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM NEWTON.
St. Croix, Nov. 16, 1771.
Herewith I give you all your dispatches, and desire you will proceed immediately to Curracoa. You are to deliver your cargo there to Tileman Cruger, Esq., agreeably to your bill of lading, whose directions you must follow in every respect concerning the disposal of your vessel after your arrival.
You know it is intended that you shall go from thence to the main for a load of mules, and I must beg if you do, you’ll be very choice in the quality of your mules, and bring as many as your vessel can conveniently contain—by all means take in a large supply of provender. Remember, you are to make three trips this season, and unless you are very diligent you will be too late, as our crops will be early in. Take care to avoid the Guarda Costas. I place an entire reliance upon the prudence of your conduct.
NEW-YORK, AUGUST 31, 1776.
PAY-BOOK
OF THE
State Company of Artillery,
COMMANDED BY
Alex’r Hamilton.
Specimen of Notes scattered throughout this Pay-Book.
- Rousseau’s Emilius.
- Smith’s History of New-York.
- Leonidas.
- View of the Universe.
- Lex Mercatoria.
- Millot’s History of France.
- Memoirs of the House of Brandenburgh.
- Review of the characters of the principal Nations of Europe.
- Review of Europe.
- History of Prussia.
- History of France.
- Lassel’s Voyage through Italy.
- Robinson’s Charles V.
- Present State of Europe.
- Grecian History.
- Baretti’s Travels.
- Bacon’s Essays.
- Philosophical Transactions.
- Hobbe’s Dialogues.
- Plutarch’s Morals.
- Cicero’s do.
- Orations—Demosthenes.
- Cudworth’s Intellectual System.
- Entick’s History of the late War.
- European Settlements in America.
- Ralt’s Dictionary of Trade and Commerce.
- Winn’s History of America.
- Montaigne’s Essays.
The Dutch in the Greenland fishery have from 150 to 200 sail and ten thousand seamen.
It is ordered that in their public prayers they pray that it would please God to bless the Government—the Lords—the States and their great and small fisheries.