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Had the pleasure and satisfaction of receiving R.'s letter in Mascarene's; no time or place however remote can ever make C. forget his old mess-mates and particularly R. whose health C. has frequently remembered (and always shall remember) "in a Brimmer of Such as this dismall place can afford, Verry much I do Assure lnferiour to that of Alicant." Being almost buried alive here, C. has lately the pleasure of Mascarene's acquaintance; will cultivate him for R.'s sake and his own.
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Acknowledges receipt of S.'s of Aug. 13. Thanks him for his kindness in sending the London news, which has given C. "abundance of Satisfaction." Sorry S. has "Such a Shuffling Debtor:" C. doubts debtor's principles, and will do his best to bring him to account.
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Acknowledges receipt of S. of W.'s despatch dated Aug. 10, 1716, by "Mr. Jno. Harrison our Chaplain who arrived here in a Sloop with the Cloathing from Boston" on Nov. 1. Soldiers must have perished for want of it, "considering they have noe Manner of Bedding." Clothing delivered to the four independent cos.: captains' receipts for same enclosed. Burges' report of strength and condition of fortifications enclosed: "onely I observe that those Bastions where the breaches are expected have hitherto never required any reparation." No report of ordnance stores transmitted, because season of year does not permit it. According to best information, there are 900 or 1000 able-bodied Frenchmen in the several parts of the colony. On receipt of the S. of W.'s letter, C, again summoned them to take the oaths: sends their
1. Direction reas "To [blank] Rapin, "most provokingly: this may be the historian, "Rapin Thoyras."
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