REVOLUTIONARY LETTER. Ill 



children commanded a good price. Among the Essex In- 

 stitute MSS. we find the following Bill of Sale, which may 

 be of some interest. 



Cambridge, June 22, 1761. 

 M r . Peleg Sterns hot 

 of Henry Price > 



A negro boy named Jack about 



six years and ten months old. Helthy and Sound for the 

 Sum of thirty Six pound thirteen Shillings and four pence 

 Lawfull Mony 36 : 13 : 4 which Negro I have a Just 

 Right to Sell as witt s My hand. 



Henry Price 

 Errors Excepted 



pr Henry Price. 

 Witt 8 



her 



Rachel X Swinnerton. 



mark 



Beniamin Jennings. 



REVOLUTIONARY LETTER. 



"Camp at Providence June 28 th 1777. 



I congratulate you my dear Sir on the recovery of your 

 family from the Small Pox (which by the bye I am not 

 obliged to Major Sprague for the Knowledge of). 



The Gentl n by whom I shall send this sets off this morn- 

 ing for Boston, (as Col. Titcomb did the day before yes- 

 terday) to know what the court will do concerning a new 

 supply of Troops to take place of those now here, whose 

 time of service is just expiring. I have not time to be 

 lengthy (thats well says you) as the gentl n . only waits to 

 take a letter from the Gen 1 , relative to a piece of intelli- 

 gence bro't by M r . Commissary Waterman of this depart- 

 ment who arrived here last night from New London and 



