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warm as to let Colonel Willis know how little Credit I had with you on Acco, of that Estate. Can you Imagine that I have any Advantage in drawing these Bills on you or that I take any pleasure in giveing [giving] you the Trouble of paying them? Id I draw for more than I at first acquainted you with, it was because I hoped to put of [off] the payment of the [latter?] Bills, till another year, and what could I do when Colonel Willis demanded the money of me? I should have made but a very indifferent figure to have put him to the trouble of a Lawsuit and to have suffered the Negroes to be taken in execution. In these difficulties I beg of you to tell me what to do, for at present I know not how to Act. If Colo. Wills [sic] should press hard for his money and I should give him Bills, I must expect them back protested and to have ten percent to pay instead of five. If I should consign the North River Crop to some other Merchant to raise and pay o[ff] these five Hundred pounds I should expect to be charge with a great deal of Ingratitude. If the Debts of this Estate is become troublesome, I should be glad you would put me into a method of making it easy by borrowing Money in England now that it is at a very low Interest, on such terms and on such Securities as could be made. The present I Hope are the only Bills I shall draw on you this year, but as the Overseers shares [& Levies] in Gloucester are still unpaid, I may perhaps be oblige to give you a little more trouble of this sort, Unless I can take up money of Mr, Prentis to be discharged by Bills of Exchange next year.

I am

Sir

Your most Humble Servt. [Servant]