One-page autograph letter giving orders to Bennett Munro, master of the sloop Peggy

by Barnard Smith

$4,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Bristol?, n.d. ca. 1800. . Folio approx. 11 x 7 , pervious folds, wrinkles, ragged margins with the loss of several words sense remains clear ; good. Sir, You being master of the sloop Peggy your orders are to improve the first fair wind & to procede to the Coast of Affrica & touching at Riononous Rio Noones? , if you can't make trade their to your mind, procede to other Ports not going further to Leeward than Cape Mount making all possible Dispatch considering your vesel is

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