Cap^t Howell will please to examine into the claim set up by Nicholas Reid for certain sums due his son Blackeits for services on board — fifteen Months Pay is said to be due @ twelve Dollars, from sometime in 1799 to [undecipherable] 1701 — Pray look over the Roles and see if he stands on them and whether any One has received his Pay — And oblige your friend and humble Servant Samuel Hodgdon Cap^t Howell — the 19 April 1791