Mr. Freeman says the sheer of the plough, has worn so small, that anew one is necessary, the present one will not cut a furrow of any weadth, & under those circomstances, haveing considerable hard plouging to perform, this fall, & next spring, perhaps it will be advisable to git a new, & larger one, the present one can be fitted for light ploughing, and favour the new one. The print (Nettle)[16] directed to Cap^{t} Freeman & myself, was received, & I annex a list of 8 subscribers, will you order them sent, with the back numbers, & pay for them, & I will have the money collected to refund, when you come. all well. FATHER _Subscribers to the Nettle._ { They come so { cheap, that no Geo” Copeland--Jo. Sampson. { dou[bt][15] 20 or 30 Enoch Pratt--Freeman Mayo. { wou’d be taken, in the Benj^{n} Berry--Solo^n Freeman. { Tow[n][15] if it was Freeman Rogers--E. Cobb. { known--Copeland, & { Docter say; they will { increase the list. [Sidenote: A Southerly Blow] Thursday A. M. 13^{th} The wind has got round to the south, & blows a hurrycane, I have just returned from your young orchard, have been assisting M^{r} F. in resecuring some of the trees, which it seemed as if the wind would take from the ground, roots, stakes, & all--the fruit is prostrated, nearly all; I beleive there are 8 of those _delicious_ plums, remain’g on the tree, but those which blew off, were perfectly ripe--if practicable, they will be kept untill you, & caro” come; I advised M^{r} F. to take those from the tree also. Notwithstanding the weight of your roller, it runs very easy, F. & Eldridge, after puting it together, could run it about any where, with ease. FATHER the wife of Elisha Bangs, expired at 7 this morn”. [1] I conclude the old Admiral, was mistaken here, as the name, Cobb, is not in her list of passengers, but I did not know it then--they, probably, came in the next vessell, the Cherub. [2] Lorient. [3] La Vendée. [4] [rowing. _Ed._] [5] [_cartile._ Probably cartel = an agreement between enemies for the exchange of prisoners. _Ed._] [6] [General Cobb seems to have had in mind the frigate _Congress_. If so, his memory was at fault, for it was in the _Essex_ that Porter captured the _Alert_, which was the first British war vessel taken in the War of 1812. _Ed._] [7] Capt. Isaac Clark, Capt. Joseph Mayo, Capt. David Nickerson, Godfrey Lincoln (Capt. Warren’s young brother) died in Africa or on the passage home.