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that you will order Insurance to ^be made on oyl & potaches on board
said Brig[antine] Fly to amo[un]y of £1000 St[erlin]g at the lowest Prem[ium] which charge
to my account tho' I am not without hopes she may arrive as early
as this however if you have no advice of her & have not receivd
mine by Dymond on rece[ip]'t of this you will make the above Insur[an]ce

Inclosd you have a Small Invoice of Glasses & pictures so w[hi]ch
I desire you will order to be put up in the best manner & strictly
agreeable to the Invoice as they are for a friend I am willling to
Serve, please to ship them in Marshall their cost charge to my
account mark them S&W consign them to me in a Seperate
Invoice & Bill of Lading

You have also a little Memo[randum?] of Leather &c from my
Shoemaker here which I would be glad you would send &
charge to my account Consigned to me it may be chargd in
my Invoice only let the Cre[di]'t of this particular be mentiond
in the Bill Lading mark the Package HR.

I have drawn on you several Bills as at bottom here=
of which you will please to honour & charge to my account.
You will be carefull not to charge me any Commissions on
payment of my Bills as farr as amount of your thirds of Cargoes
which I paid here ~

I am really ashamd to mention that I am unable
to send the whole accounts of ship & Brig[antine] &c with the Acco[un]t
of Sewell & Lewis &c P[er] this opportunity I am obligd to make
one more Apology & really if you knew what a Scene of hurry
I have been through, & still am in, you would readily Excuse
me, but as soon as the Brig[antine] is gone I will then sett down &
make it my Study to Compleat the whole of those Acco[un]ts when
I will forward them to you. I shall at same time transmit
Mr Woodford his yearly account when I shall send you a Bill
on him for a pretty large Ballance, this I have hitherto been
pretty prevented doing by a Constant attention to other matters

I must desire you will please to make Insurance for me
on oyl on board the Ship John Gally John Blake Master
to amo[un]t of £700 St[serlin]g at the lowest Prem[ium] which charge to
my Acco[un]t he will sail in about 15 or 20 days. You will also
make Insurance on oyl on board s[ai]d Ship for account of
Josiah Barker of Nantuckett & myself to amo[un]t of £130~ one
half of the Prem[ium] you will charge to Josiah Barker, the other
half you will charge to my Account ~

I wholly depend you will be able to give the Brig[antine]
Lydia a quick freight back to Boston & cant but think you
will have almost sufficient of your own to load her, but must
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