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time is taken before accounts of sales are made out, and then there is an exception at the foot of the Accot. [account] Current against Bad Debts. I am very desirous to deal with you, but I hope you will come into some method, by which I may be upon as good a foot of Security as I am with other men. I am

Sir
Your most humble serv. [Servant]

This letter is addresed only
to yourself, having cast last night heard of the Death of Mr. Moseley which I am very sorry for; but the Account Current and the indorsement of the Bills of Exch. being perhaps before are in both your names.

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Added to Mr. Athawes Letter
Nov. 8. 1737.

I had almost forgot to tell you that I drew a Bill of Exch, dated October the sixth for eighteen pounds payable to [Mess. Foster Cunliffe & Samuel Powell Merch. of Liverpoole which I desire may be pd (paid?) & charg'd to my Brother George Carter. It was for a Negro sold to Stanhope his overseer at Rippon Hall. Mr. Wm. Camp pd (paid?) me twenty five [pod.?] Curf Money; and I writ to Mr. Robert Cary to pay my Broth twenty pd (pound) Sterl. in the room of it and afterwards Stanhope came to me to let me know he had not been pd [paid?] for his share of the Crop, and desired me to let him have a Negro which I could not refuse. So I hope my Brother will not take it amiss.