3l8 TlMEHRI. 



think I am more industrious than before your depar- 

 ture. — However be (that) as it may you may rely on my 

 assiduity on every Occasion. Capt. THOMSON, who is 

 to convoy Capt. FORTUNE, ye Eagle and other Vessels 

 from here, has not given out when he will sail, but as 

 we suppose it will be on very short Intelligence have 

 therefore closed my Letters of this date to Lane, Son 

 and Eraser, to go by them, and left them w*". Mr. J. B. 

 as am going to Essequebo, but expe6l still to write 

 further by them, as suppose they'll not be sailed before 

 I return in a Day or two, via Barbados — under cover to 

 to our Friend J. H, All our Friends here and in the 

 other River are well in ye old wav. our Worthy Friend, 

 Mr. Roth, died about lo days agoe greatly regretted 

 by his Family and acquaintances, I wish you the 

 greatest Happiness, and believe me D'. Greene, Yours, 



Wm. Parkinson. 

 Rio Demerary, the ist Oftr., 1781. 

 (Copy via Barbades.) 



Demerary, the i8th May 1795: 

 Dear Greene,— "It is possible you are now arrived and 

 happy among your Friends in Boston, however a few 

 Days more may bring about that desirable Point. — And 

 you will be impatiently waiting, I make no doubt, to hear 

 how your Friends are here, and know the Events that 

 may have taken place. — We were after you left us all 

 quiet, and in anxious Expeftation of the arrival of the 

 Dutch Commissioners that were spoke off, and we had 

 afterwards official Dispatches to our Governour via 

 Surinam that they certainly were dispatched over France, 

 on the 3rd Inst. After those Dispatches, an English 



