[Docket on verso: Edm^d Brodie / with a Invoice / [undecipherable] / Col^l Hodgdon] [Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1884. R.P.O.401810] Boston Sept. 4. 1795 Sir, This serves to cover you Inv.^ce & 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.^ce — with respect to the number of bars its possible, they may be incorrect. the Men who counted, were very indeferant, wishing it safe to land I remain very respectfully [undecipherable] M^r Sam^l Hodgdon Edm^d Brodie [Enclosure 1 — Docket: Invoice of Lead / by Capⁿ Doggett — / Sept 4. / [undecipherable: circled numeral] / 3196 / 131 / 3.374] Boston Sept. 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^d Brodie on board the Sloop Hersa Tho^s J. Doggett Master — bound for Philadelphia [undecipherable] for the ben^t & risk of M^r Sam^l Hodgdon (Citizen of the United States) & to him Consigned — 131 Pigs 726 Bars } Lead Wt. 314.1.27. d— 2515..93 2472 ditto Charges [undecipherable] To Delivering . . . . 4..62 To Wharfage 3.30. Truck: 10.50 13. 80 To my Comⁿ for del^y & Storage 26. 25 44.67 2560.60 Boston Sept. 4. 1795 Errors Excepted Edm^d Brodie [Enclosure 2 — Docket: Cap^tn Doggett's Bill / of Lading of Lead / For W^t for / 15.14.2 — / Sept. 5 / [undecipherable]] SHIPPED in good Order, and well conditioned, by [undecipherable] in and upon the [undecipherable] called the [undecipherable] whereof is Master, for this present Voyage, [undecipherable] now in the Harbour of [undecipherable] bound for [undecipherable] To say, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Bars of Lead being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered, in the like good Order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid Port of [undecipherable] (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) or to [undecipherable] Assigns, he or they paying Freight for the said Goods [undecipherable] 15. 14. 2. 0. d. # 3 . . . # 4½18 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] [undecipherable] Tho^s Doggett