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Sir
I receivec your by Capt Darby dated 20th April with the supply you sent agreeable to your memorandum and all in good order and also twelve bushells potatoes and one ? cod fish very good ones, which came very oportunely, as we had no fish to eat nor no meat, he had a long ? the winds being contary. He did not arrive here till the 4th of Jun so we had a brig stranded on teh 28th May from Philadelphia bound to St. Petersburg, Prussia - Henry ? we all ? busy in geting the cargo a shore. The ? crgo is a coming to Halifax with Capt Darby to charter a vessel to take of what can be saved, her cargo consist of cotton, jaquared, coffee ? sugar do - of about ? she will stay here no longer than she can ? etc and it is impossible for them to save every thing - and when they ? we might a great many things for the benefit of the Island if we had ? but our cattle are all dying with the ? distemper we are obliged? to work one OK and a ? together. if you would purchase - us a good horse or two - we might