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the Mate has brought the boat of with him that be long.d to the Schooner which he means to sell = I have wrote to Cap.t Darby if she should touch at Country [illegible] with a memorandom of some things that I stand in need of if you will be so good as to let him have some money on my acct, = and oblidge your Humble Servant

[signature]
Edward Hodgson

[at lower left]
Sable Island
9th April 1816