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Boston {August} 17 1764
{Gentlemen}

I wrote you by {Captain} Hunter when I acquainted you with the
Melancholy event of the death of my worthy Uncle which happen'd very
Sudden 1st Instant I then {desired} you would be {pleased} to settle & Compleat
our whole amounts and forward me Account Current as soon as possible
which now Confirm, and beg you will not delay this, as am really at a loss
about the state of our Account, you will observe you have not sent us any
Account Sales of the Oyl by Jacobson, Jarvis, nor any account of Pott Ashes
nor the Cargo of the Boston Pacquett, pray forward the whole, {with} {Account Current}
and whatever Ballance may be due to you, shall be immediately remit-
ted you.

I now Inclosed you Invoice & Bill of Lading of thirty one barrells
& four hogsheads of potashes shipt on board the Elizabeth {Edmund} Wendell
Master to your address which you will dispose of to the best advantage &
Credit my Account for the produce I must desire you will have it all {weighed}
and dispose of it at the smallest tare you can, I hope it will meet a good
Markett. Inclosed is a Certificate from the Custom house of the several
Cargoes of Oyl & the Whale Bone {referred} to in my Letter in Co {with} Folger &
Gardner. I cannot now be so particular as I could wish being much
{Engaged} & {hurried} pray dispatch the Boston Parkett & {Brigantine} Lydia as early
as possible that they may return with a Load of Oyl.

The whole of the Oyl shipt to your Markett this year will Center
with you & Champion & Hayby & Buxton & Symmes & you may depend
in the fall that you will have as much or more for the plan they have
laid of Engrossing the whole Oyl, will not Effect, neither shall it, for I am
{determined} rather to increase than lessen my Concerns in it, my visit
to Nantuckett was very agreeable, & formd such Connections as to prevent
any dissapointment, I can have what oyl I please & of the best men there
which of course takes from the other Channell and is very Chagrining to
Mr. R L but he knows my mind.

I continue in the same Store, and propose Carrying on the same
business as with my late Uncle, by myself, of which shall write you more
hereafter, I should be glad of your opinion respecting oyl & Pott Ashes,
Whale bone &c. & to know your inclinations as to Concerns in oyl whether
you would approve a Concern in more than what will load the Ship
& Brig. {Inclosed} you have a Certificate of landing the Tea & Partridge
so long depending in the Custom house.

You will please to observe that Folger & Gardner settles with
you for the third of Cash of all the Cargoes, except the {Brigantine} Lydias Cargo
which I shall settle & your & third of {said} Cargo being £779..13..3 {Sterling}
you will please to carry to the Credit of T: H. & Co. & I have accordingly {charged}
it to you & you will Credit {said} Account with one third the produce of all the
Cargos of oyl &c.

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