Nicholas Brown & Co. to Hopkins, Esek July 17, 1765 Nicholas Brown & Co. creator Hopkins, Esek 1718-1802 recipient letters (correspondence) riu Newport, RI 1765-07-17 eng 2 p. On July 17, 1765, ten months after the departure of the Sally, the Brown brothers finally received a letter from Esek Hopkins. The letter, which Hopkins had dispatched from Africa in May, disconfirmed recent reports that the Sally had been lost or that its crew had perished. (A second letter from Hopkins, written in March, arrived subsequently.) Moses Brown, who had come to Newport to organize the family's affairs in light of the reported loss of the Sally, was elated. "Such favourable Accts of your Circumstance from what we had heard Quite alleviates our Misfortune," he wrote. In this letter, dated July 17, Brown went on to offer advice about where Hopkins might most profitably dispose of his cargo. The letter was sent to Barbados, Hopkins's expected destination in the Caribbean. Like other letters posted by the Browns, it appears not to have reached the captain. University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice 17 http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice BFBR 643-2, item 6 1157643190110276No Copyright - United StatesCollection is open for research.