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which sum of two hundred & ninety eight pounds five shillings and ten pence you must Carry to the Credit of Colonel Carters Estate. By which Transfer you will be indebted to that Estate one hundred & ten pounds one shilling & five pence & the Nomony Estate will owe you about eighty four pounds. According to the Calculations I have made from your own Letters & Accounts. I am.

Sir

Your Most humble Servt. [Servant]

Rich. Chapman

Orders for Capt. Wm. Dick Master of the Little Betty Brigantine bound for Liverpole

After you have cleared at the Collectors & Naval officers you are to make the best of your way to Liverpole and there deliver all the Tobacco to Mr Cunliffe. to whom you are Consigned. You are to be subject to his directions both as to any Disbursments to the vessel and a Load of salt which you are to take in; as soon as you are Loaded with salt & the Brigantine is ready you are to come away to Virginia, making your passage as much to the Southward as Convenient(l)y you can. When you arrive at Rappahanock you are to Lodg half of your salt at Corotomon the other half you are to Carry up to the falls to Colonel Charles Carters in the Brig

Corotomon July 14 1736

John Carter
Charles Carter
Landon Carter

P. S.

We will by no means consent to the imploying the little Boy Cammel we dont think him any thing but a Charge to us therefore you must discharge him