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Sir

I received yours by Cap.t Darby and mark.d the contents = He arrived home the 12th May and the whether pretty good that day = but the next day we could do nothing nor for three days afterwards the surf was so bad = but we shall finish loading the first fine day = there has been no wrecks this winter excepting a vessel I suppose struck on the N.W. Bar = but not a living soul seen = only somethings drifted a shore = we found a head of a barrel mark.d New York. [illegible: D.S.?] pursers stores - and an oar mark.d [illegible] Nash - and some soap and chocolate boxes = and some boxes of soap = and some chocolate = but all good for nothing I suppose she had not been long out of port for her paint was not quite dry = it was about the 20th of March = you sent us some potatoes otherwise we should be very short of [Bread kind?] = and our small stores very nigh expended = and if there is none come by the first or middle of August we shall be very bad off. Our cattle has wintered pretty well have loss none but are very poor. Excepting at the East End are in pretty good order = as the west End of the Island is all washing away - I repeat in the course of 2 or 3 years that the house will be wash.d away if it go away as fast as it has done this last six months = in course of four years it has wash.d away four miles that it is not above one mile of land from the house to the end of the land and that terminates to a point