nt You the Sloop, Commanded by John Webb, Loaded
with Sundry Goods that has Rec'd some damage, which must
desire You to Unload directly and take Care to Gett them
dryed. there is also a Negro Boy that is Sickly, a Negro Man
said to be taken off of Barmudas by the privateer as he was
a fishing, and a Mollatto belonging to Some of the Subjects
or Vassalls of the King of Spain, all which We Recomend to
Your Care that they may not Elope. the Number of Spanish
prisoners taken on board is 48, out of which is Eleven of
the blood of Negroes, The Capt. Included, for which we dont
doubt having his Majestys bounty mony, which is L5 Ster. per
head. We also desire that the Vessell may not be Condemned
till Our Arrivall but only Unloaded and a Just Acct. taken
of what on board. As to the Brigantine, the Capt. of her,
whom we put in again out of Civility, has Used Us in a Very
Rascally manner, for he Run away with the Vessell from Us in
the Night and no doubt with a design to Cheat Us of Our
Salvage, which is the one half of Brig and Cargo, the Enemy
having had possession of her 22 days. As she is a Vessell of
Value, hope You'l do Your Endeavours to Recover Our Just
dues and Apply to the Owners who are, as we are Credibly
Informed, Messrs. Lee and Tyler of Boston, both Under the
State of Conviction Since the Gospell of Whitefield and
Tennant [h]as been propagated in New England,[92] So that we
are in hopes they will Readily Give a Just Acct. of her
Cargo and her true Value and Render to Caesar the things
that are Caesars, which is the Moral preachd by Whitefield.

[Footnote 92: An allusion to the "Great Awakening", and to
the revivalist preaching of George Whitefield in Boston in
the autumn of 1740 and of Gilbert Tennent in the ensuing
winter. Tyler at any rate (John Tyler of Boxford and Boston)
seems certainly to have been affected by the "New Light"
movement, for in 1745 the Second Church in Boxford suspended
him, among others, for "receiving into their houses
Itinerant Preachers and holding meetings in opposition to
the repeated entreaties of their Brethren". _The Tyler
Genealogy_, I. 43.]

As this will Require a Law Suit I hope You'l Gett the best
Advice You possibly Can and Gett her Seized if att Boston or
Else Where and Gett her Cond