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the whole Amount of the Cargo we send you, you will observe is £2085
our Currency wch is something more than I wrote you I thought it would be
which has proceeded from the Scarceness of Rum, as soon as you have disposed
of the Cargo you will render me Accompt & Sales & to favour me with
a Line when the Vessell arrives & Sails & in any Commands this way shall be
ready to send you & am

Sir
Your friend & Humble Servt.

P.S. There is upon Freight
5 {Hogsheads} Rum a 10/- {per} {Hogshead} to Isaac Griffis
3 {Barrels} {Turpentine} @ 3/6 {per} CC. Chris: Marshall
1/2 Tonn Cordage @ 30/-Tonn
which you will please to recieve of the
Respective Persons to whom they are Consign'd
(For our Accompt you will please to observe
that the same Persons that are named in the Invoice
must likewise be inserted in your Invoice as we
are equally concern'd.

Eliakim Palmer Esq. Boston 8th June 1747
Sir,
I have only to inform you that I rec'd {per} Capt
Snelling 3 yards Cloth packed in a Case sent to Mr. Balston wch proves to
Content, you don't write whether the Tickett is paid of which I should be
glad to hear, have wrote you already {per} Capt Craige [?], to which shall [refoor?]
I am respectfully Sir yr Very {humble} {Servant}

[?] Capt. Craigie [?]
[Fores?]

Eliakim Palmer Esq. Boston 13th July 1747.
Sir,
This Confirms the above as Copy of my last
since have none of yours hope {per} the receipt of this Letter your will
receive the bill of exchange from Mr. Charles Mathews in Antigua for
£100 Sterling, which I wrote you concerning in my last, unless
the Vessells should be taken I have wrote him by as the First has had
the Unhappiness to be- Have now to beg the Favour of you to
make Insurance for me £250 Sterling on one third part of the
Schooner Friendship & Cargo William Sherburne Master from Boston
where She now lays to Gibraltar & to make what further Insurance on
said Schooner & Cargo, said Sherburne shall write you for, wether directly
to Boston or to any other Place I wish, accordingly have ordered him to
notify you upon his Arrivall at Gibraltar how he shall proceed & the
Time when For your Government of the Insurance upon her - you will
please to observe the Schooner is new, having never been a Voyage as yet
well fix'd & mann'd Curthen'd about Twenty Tonns. would be obliged
to you to get the Insurance for as low a premium as you can & good
Endorsers - was in hopes I should have been able to have remitted your
Bill of Ecxhange from hence for £50 Sterling, but the first I light
off will send you as I should now have done had I not been disappointed
I begg you would not fail of making this Insurance as I absolutely depend
upon it & it would be a great disappointment - I would take this
opportunity to inform you that upon looking over the Papers of my Uncle
John Phillips deceas'd I find an {Account} {Current} of yours wherein you make
him Da. for a Ballance of £40 Sterling or thereabouts & as I can find