1. The caption in the original reads: “Extract of a Letter from a G[entleman]{p. 367}at Eustatia 17. Sept.” The editors have no certain clue as to who the writer was.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/