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Missieurs Foster Cunliffe and Samuel Powel.

Gentlemen, Wms.burgh Nov.3.1737

I have already written several letters concerning your ship Stannage and her cargo. She now waits only for the finishing the letters that go by her. Herein I inclose you thirty three setts of Bills of Exchange amounting to eight hundred ninty eight pounds, fifteen shillings, and five pence sterling, with an accot. of sales, lumber, tobacco, an accot. Current containing the remittance of every penney of money I have received, also Capt. Hill's Bill of Loading for the tobacco, being thirty hhds, and for the Cash. I will not say any thing to induce you to continue this or send any other Part of your business to me. I did as well as I could, & if you can confide so much in me as to leave your Business to be Managed in the manner I shall think most for your Advantage. I shall be ready to serve you, neither can I take upon my self to judge the price that Negroes may sell at Next year; tho' I believe it will not be worse than the present sale, if our crops are so short as we imagine: for then the Planters can turn their Tob. into money. And if the ship comes again consigned to me I shall have occasion to lay out about four hundred pounds sterling in young slaves to pay off two legacies of my father to his grandchildren; & in such case you may rest assured, that I would not take them a penny cheaper, than I could sell them for to any one else. And as for those I have bought this year, I appeal to Cap. Hill whether it was possible to have made any more of them. You will observe sixteen sold Mr. Shelton at a very cons Rate, & yet I believe