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(seq. 16)
Boston 6th Dec 1744
{Messers} Sitwell Noyce & Co
{Gentlemen} This waits on you & Incloses a small Invoice for sundry Goods in your way. Am recommended to you {per} {Thomas} Hubbard Esq. mercht in Boston. Intended to have been in London myself this Fall, but was prevented by the warr & being advised to you {per} {Thomas} Hubbard Esq. not doubting I should be as well used by your House as any in London, has urged me to send this small Invoice to you for a Tryall. Hope they will be well bought & shipt {per} the first Vessell in the Spring. Would be glad to have them {per} Craige, if first [House?] not remitted you now, but shall send you a Bill of Exchange very soon & shall always endeavour to make you quick Returns, for whatever I shall write for. Would begg the Favour of you, to insure whatever you send me, & if this should suit, doubt not but it may open considerable Trade between us. Should be glad to serve you in any Commands this way & am
{Gentlemen} {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
{per} {Captain} Craige Dutton
Boston 20th Dec 1744
{Mister} {Charles} Simpson
Sir This confirms the ^above Copy of my last to you, wherein I observed to you, that I had paid {Messers} Greens [pound symbol]74,,6,,6, (old Tenor) but have since found a mistake of [pound symbol]10 over paid, as you will find by the acctt Sales I sent you {per} {Captain} Bangs. Which if you find [so?], be pleased to credit me accord= =ingly. Should be glad of a Line from you {per} first opportunity & am with offers of Service
Sir {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
{per} {Captain} Gould. {Captain} Cal[f?] Morton
Boston 20th Feby 1744/5
{Mister} {William} Adams
Sir This may serve to Inform you, that I have not a Line from you since your first consigning me your Tarr. Should have been glad to have heard that your Sales & Returns had given Content being the first Time you had consign'd me. Hoping if this had suited, I should have further Consignments from from you, whom I should always be glad to serve & am wth due respect
Sir {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
Tarr @ 50/. Pitch 60/. {per} {barrel}. {per} {Captain} Morton Calf Coker
(seq. 17)
Boston 26th Jany 1744/5
{Mister} {Michael} Coutanch
Sir My last to you was of 5th Dec {last} since which have rec'd ^none from you. Should be glad of a Line from you, as well as your Orders for your Balla I have in my hands. I should have sent it you in O[?]enbriggs according to your first orders, but the price was so risen, that I was willing to send some First for a Trial. I hope the Care I have taken of what you have Consign'd ^me will so farr please you, as that I may do further Service for you & am with Due Esteem
Sir {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
Tarr @ 50/. Pitch 60/. {per} {barrel} {per} {Captain} Morton Cale[t?] Coker
Boston 26th Jany 1744/5
{Doctor} Walley Chauncy
Sir Could not omitt this opportunity of writing you, although I have none from you, since mine {per} {Captain} Bangs & Gould. Want very much to hear how you & & the other Gentln who consign'd me like my Transactions & particularly whether the Negro I sent you suits you, for I am sure he is a Capable Fellow. You could not buy a Fellow of his age now, for Two hundred Pounds our Currency. I hope my Conduct will engage me the Consignments of you & those Gentln for the Future. Hope {Mister} Snoad is well. Please to give my hearty Service to him. We are all well & give our Service to you & wife & all Friends & am
Sir {your} {Very} {humble} {Servant}
Tarr @50/. Pitch 60/. {per} {barrel} {per} {Captain} MortonCale[?] Coker
Boston 20th Feby 1744/5.
{Mister} Henry Snoad
Sir This acknowledges with Gratitude your Favour yesterday {per} {Captain} Holker & note the Contents. Am much obliged to you for the Respect you are please to express towards me, in that you will consign me what you shall send here for the Future, depending upon my acting for your best advantage, which you may absolutely depend upon & shall be much oblidged to you for any further Consignments you can procure me. I shall always ^do this both for you or your Friends, to make the quickest Remittance possible, having no occasion to turn it to my own advantage, & anything you should have occasion for here, whether I have any effects of yours in my hands or no, will endeavour to send it. Shall depend upon a Line from you {per} every opportunity & am with Due Respect
Sir {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
Tarr @50/. Pitch 60/. {per} {barrel} {per}{Captain} Cal[?] Coker
(seq. 18)
Boston 20th Feby 1744/5
{Doctor} Walley Chauncy
Sir Since I wrote the above to go {per} {Captain} Morton who is now stopt by an Embargo that is laid on all Shipping on acctt of a private expedition against Cape Breton, I broke open the Letter, to inform you of the receipt of both your [fav?] {per} {Captain} Holker who arrived here yesterday. I am much obliged to you for your recommendation of {Colonel} Paton to me & will endeavour to serve him to the best of my Power. I observe you write me that he had shipt some light Pay to me {per} this Vessell but I have no Letter from him, nor Consignments as I can find. Would be glad you would enquire into that affair, but you may assure yourself that whether he or any others should consign me that they shall never find me slack as to remittance & should be obliged to you for any thing of that Nature you could help me to. I observe {Mister} Coutanch has no settled Factor here, but consigns sometime to one & sometimes to another. He has now drawn a Bill on me For his Ballance I have in my hands, wch have paid to {Mister} Duncan. I believe he will get nobody that will do better For him than I would or that would make quicker Remittance. Have sent all the other Gentln their Effects {per} Stone. Would send you those Druggs you wrote for {per} this Conveyance, but {Mister} Cal[?] tells me he shall go by land & so can't carry them. If I can prevail with him I will, if not will send it {per} first opportunity. Your Brother is well but has not Time to write but desires to give his Love to you & Spouse. With rest of the Family & I am
Sir {your} {Humble} {Servant}
Tarr @ 50/. Pitch 60/. {per} {barrel}. {per} {Captain} Cale[?] Coker
Boston 20th Feby 1744/5
{Mister} {Michael} Coutanch
Sir The above I wrote to go {per} {Captain} Morton who I was Inform'd was charter'd to you, but was stoped by an Embargo that was laid on all Shipping, on acctt of a secret expedition. Where- =upon I broke open my Letter in order to inform you that I rec'd your order for paying {Mister} Duncan your ballance, accordingly waited upon him & told him the money was ready for him whenever he pleased to call for it, having had it by me ever since I shipt your Goods, waiting your orders. I should be glad of a Line from you {per} every opportunity & in any Concerns this way should be glad to serve you which Concludes me with Due Respect
Sir {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
{by} {Captain} Cale[?] Coker
(seq. 19)
Boston 10th March 1744/5.
Gentlemen We have already wrote you {per} the same Conveyances concerning making Insurance on our Schooner Dolphin {Captain} Richard Waite master, as also have sent {you} on the third bills to use in Case of need. The first & second bills {Captain} Waite has forwarded you amount to [pound symbol]381.7.1. sterling & hope they are paid & that it will not be long before you receive bills for the Cargo She now has, as also what Freight she will make to London, as we have given {Captain} Waite orders to remitt h[?] effects to you on our acctt. I have herein Inclosed you a pattern for a piece 26 yards of a blue masarene superfine broad Cloth @ 16/6 or [7?]/. {per} yard sterling, with a piece of fine Shalloon suitable to the Cloth & a bagg of fashionable buttons with Twist & 6 {per} english sole Leather @ 2/. {per}. Would begg the Favour of you, that they may be well bought & shipt {per} the first opportunity being for my own wear - am sensible these things are out of your way, but as I intend to order what remittances I shall make, to your House, If you would do me the Favour to send these things, should be oblidged to you. As to the Goods I wrot you for last Fall hope daily to receive, after which shall write you more [l?]arge & am with Respect
Gentln {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
P.[S?] desire the favr of you to insure what you send me - {Messers} Silwell & Co {per} {Captain} Durell Darling Nicholson
Boston 8th Aprill 1745.
{Doctor} Walley Chauncy
Sir Yours {per} {Captain} Beacon came safe to hand I rec'd 22d March, as also a Letter to {Mister} Hubbard & me for a Vesselle to be sent upon charter subscribed by {Colonel} {Benjamin} Payton & {Captain} Stone, which we shall endeavour to send assoon aspossible, Vessells at present being very scarce [to?] hire or buy. Should be very glad if you would desire {Captain} Payton for the Future to consign to me alone as I am not in partnership with {Mister} Hubbard or any one else & believe I can transact his business as well. Believe {Mister} Hubbard's design in sending his Vessell to your River was to get Consignments in partnership with me, which would not suit me but this by the by. Since my last have rec'd Skins & Hides from {Colonel} Payton, & have shipt him more than the effects, as he has promis'd to remitt me {per} the first opportunity.
{Mister} Guin has also consign'd me his Schooner upon your recommendation, for which I return you hearty thanks & intend she shall sail today. Have disposed of his Tarr [&?] sent him acctt Sales & have shipt him nigh all his effects, but had advanced the Cash for all I sent him before I sold his Tarr. It has been unlucky for him this embargo has been laid not only as to disposing of his Tarr, but detain -ing his Vessell upon Charge, for I should have sent her back three days after she came in if it had not been for that. I am now about buying a Vessell for [?] {Mister} Guin, as I cannot hire one. If she should not suit him, shall order her to {Colonel} Payton who is willing to be concerned with me in a Vesselle to use the Trade. Have sent you the druggs you wrote for which if they suit you, you are welcome to. We are all well & I am in Respect to you & Spouse wch [Concludes?] me,
Sir {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
P.S I understand {Mister} Snoad is going to be married to {Colonel} Payton's daughter, wish him much happiness {per} {Captain} Coker Bacon Wade
(seq. 20)
Boston 8th Aprille 1745.
{Colonel} {Benjamin} Payton
Sir This acknowledges the Receipt of your favour {per} {Captain} Bacon 22d March. Have also rec'd your Hides & Skins & have just disposed of them. Have not as yet weighed the Hides, they wanting considerable drying. They hold out as to the Number, the Skins have weighed, but find wanting the weight you put them at in your Letter by 19[?] & was oblidged to separate them in weighing. [?] of them were very poor & would fetch but half price. The rest sold for 8/. [?]. They would have fetch'd more sometime ago, but there is a great Number in now, which has lower'd the price, but shall send you acctt Sales of Hides & Skins together {per} {Captain} Bacon, whom I shall send in a Vessell to {Mister} Guin. Herein you have inclosed Invoice & Bills Lading for 1 {hogshead} [NE?] Rum & [?] Molasses & a Negro man named (Paris) {amounting} to [pound symbol]250.10.2. (old Tenor), which hope will prove to Content. Rum & Molasses are very much risend here lately, but I gave the Cash for both, & so got them as cheap as possible. As to the Negro you cant but like him. To be sure he is as likely a Fellow as any in Boston. He's Two & twenty years of age, & is sold for no other Reason but because he is impudent & his Master being in years cant manage him. He is guilty of no Vice & he is also very Cheap. About a Month ago I bougt a New Negro Boy for myself & gave One hundred & fifty pounds for him, who is a Child to this. I paid the Cash down for him or could not have had him so Cheap. Upon the whole I suppose you will falle in my Debt about [pound symbol]70 [?] but cant tell exactly. I should not have avanced the Cash for any Man, but as you wrote me what was over you would remitt me directly, & as I expect further Consignments from you, I have done what is not Customary. As to what you wrote me respecting a Vesselle using the Trade, I like very well & have made it my business to look out for one, but they are very scarce at present there being a great many gone on the expedition against Cape Breton
I am now about buying a Vessell for {Mister} Guin of 70 Tuns, who wrote me to hire him one about that [Cigness?] & if he liked her he would buy her & keep her constantly in the Trade. If she should not suit him shall give you the offer of her, but shall write you ^at large when I send her- & will be lookg out in the mean Time for another in Case he should take her. I perceive you have joined with {Captain} Stone in sending to {Mister} Hubbard & myself for a Vesselle, wch shall send as soon as possible Vessells being scarce as I wrote above. Whatever you send here, would be glad you would consign me singly, not being in partnership with any one & doubt not I shall transact your business to your Satisfaction, as I am sure I can make as quick Returns as any Man & shall always be ambitious of so doing. Please to accept my hearty Service to yourself & Family to {Mister} Snoad & I am with offers of further Service & due Respect
Sir {your} {Very} {humble} {Servant}
Tarr @ 45/. Pitch 55/. [?] {barrels} Tallow @ 2/6 Hides 2[?] [?] Dear Skins 8/. [?] drest {Ditto} 14/. [?]
{per} {Captain} Coker Wade