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Mr Alderman Perry

WmsBurgh Nov 11th 1737

Sir

The latter end of August I writ to you about the Drowth, and sad Prospect we had of making Crops of Corn and Tob. Indeed after that, towards the begining of September there came a plentifull Rain, and fine warm weather followed, which like a new summer made our Tobacco grow wonderfully in a little time and a great deal was housed that once had been looked on as impossible to come to anything, but than the weather changing, and a sharp Frost coming upon the Tobacco that was not fit to Cut, destroyed a very large quantity and in my own Judgment which I have formed from the best Information I could get. I am satisfied their cannot be half crops made. How this will affect the Market at Home I leave you to [conjecture?(illegible)]; & to help or sell Mr. Pages Tobacco, & the small Consignment I made you last year, as you judge most proper I am now to Acquaint you that I have given Cap Thomas Hill Bills of Exchange on you for one hundred and eighty one pounds, nine shillings and one penny, the payment of which I hope will be made without any difficulty, if the Directions concerning my Bank stock, and the Letters writ to you by my brother Charles and myself about the end of June have been observed
But if there be yet no Division of the stock and I have not sufficient on my own privat account in your hands. I hope there is still friendship enough between us to induce you to pay these Bills. As I shall be oblige to pay off some Legacies of my Fathers Estate next summer and must have money to draw on, I desire that my part of the Bank stock according to the division made