[Endorsement on cover, upper right:] Edm. Breed &[undecipherable] with a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1795 [undecipherable] [Center:] 1 Comm[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Lower left:] [undecipherable] [Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1894, R.P.O.401810] Boston Sept. 4. 1795 Sir, This serves to cover you Inv.^e & bill Lading of Lead. agreeable to your request, The bill of lading specifies the number of bars only, owing to the Captains being confident, it was not deliver'd along side, but was put on board, the Pomona. he may be right, but the Truckmen are sure they are. however, I expect the Weight on board, will agree with the Inv.^e — with respect to the number of bars its possible, they may be incorrect. the Men who counted, were very indifferent, wishing it safe to hand I remain very respectfully [undecipherable] M^r. Sam^l. Hodgdon Edm^s. Breed &. [Docket:] Invoice of Lead by Capⁿ. [undecipherable: probable reading "Doggett"] — Sept 4. [undecipherable] 3196 131 3,327 Boston Sep^t. 4. 1795 Invoice of Twenty four hundred & twenty two Bars — India Lead Seven hundred & twenty six Bars & one hundred & thirty one Pigs Lead. Shipped by Edm. Breed on board the Sloop [undecipherable: probable reading "Pomona"] Tho^s. F. Doggett Master — bound for Philadelphia [undecipherable] for the acc^t. & risk of M^r. Sam^l. Hodgdon Citizen of the United States & to him Consigned — 131 Pigs 726 Bars } Lead Wt. 314.l.27.d — 2515..93 2,472 ditto Charges [undecipherable] To Delivering . . . . . 4..62 To Wharfage 3.30. Truck^t. 10.50 13. 80 To my Com^d. for del^y. & Storage 26. 25 44. 67 2560, 60 Boston Sep^t. 4. 1795 Errors Excepted Edm^s. Breed &. [Docket:] Cap^t. Doggett's Bill of Lading of Lead Ton [undecipherable] for 15. 14. 2 — Sep^t. 5 ½ SHIPPED in good Order, and well conditioned, by [undecipherable] in and upon the [undecipherable] called the [undecipherable] whereof [undecipherable] is Master, for this present Voyage, [undecipherable] now in the Harbour of [undecipherable] bound for [undecipherable] To say, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Bars of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered, in the like good Order and well con- ditioned, at the aforesaid Port of [undecipherable] (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) unto [undecipherable] or to [undecipherable] Assigns, he or they paying Freight for the said Goods [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with Primage and Average accustomed. In Witness Whereof, the Master of the said [undecipherable] hath affirmed to [undecipherable] Bills of Lading of this Tenor and Date; One of which being accomplished, the other [undecipherable] to stand void.— Dated in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Tho^s. F. Doggett