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Boston 24th July 1745
{Messers} Sitwell Noyes & Compy
Sirs This waits on you with Due Respect & Incloses an Invoice for sundry Goods in addition to the former I sent you but am disappointed of. Would begg the Favour of you to see these Goods be well bought according to the severall Prices Inserted in the Invoice & that they may be shipt {per} the first Vessell bound to this Place, otherways will be a great Disappointment not only to myself, but to those Persons for whom I send for them.
I would write you particularly with Regard to a few Razors I wrote for my own use. Would have them of the best Stuff & as well made as any you have or can get. As also with Regard to a small Glass for my Eye, being very near sighted. I dont care how small it is in circumference if so be I can see clearly through it at a Distance, my sight being very strong nigh the object.
I should not Trouble you for such a small Thing if so be I could get it here but have tryed severall & cant find any to suit me, & whatever there shall be upon the whole due to you more than you have of mine in your Hands will endeavour to remitt you to your Satisfaction & Hope this will lay a Foun= =dation for a Lasting Correspondence between us. {Mister} Hubbard & myself have wrote {per} the same Conveyance concerning our Schooner Dolphin, which sold very well & her Effects to be remitted to you. Would have you insure the whole of what you send me, which will add to the obligations of
{Gentlemen} {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
{per} His Majesty's Ship El[t?]ham {per} {Captain} Darline, Nicholson, Russell.
Boston 24th July 1745
{Messers} Horrocks, [S?]aint & Hughes
{Gentlemen} Inclosed you have a First Bill of Exchange for [pound symbol]49.16 Sterling drawn in favour of John Adams by Joseph R[un?]dell upon Joseph White of Pool, which hope will be duely Honoured in Time. The Third & Fourth Bills you will receive via Newfoundland & when paid desire you would pass to my Creditt. By same opportunity you may receive other Bills of the same Nature on my acctt. Hope {per} the first Vessell From London to receive the Invoice I wrote you for once & again it being a great Damage to me at first setting out into Business to meet with such a Disappointment in having my First Letters I wrote you Inter- -cepted. Otherways I presume I should have received the Goods I wrote for before this Time, notwithstanding you had no Effects of mine in your Hands, upon the Recommendation of your worthy Partner {Mister} Hughes.
Have wrote you already, to desire the favour of you to insure what you send me, which Concludes me with Due Respect
Sirs {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
{per} His Majestys Ship Eltham {Captains} Darling, Nicholson, Russell
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Boston 30th July 1745
{Mister} William Mace
{Sir} I Reced yours {per} {Captain} Bacon wherein you have Inclosed me a Bill of Lading For 21 {barrels} Beef 17 Pork which have not as yet disposed of being very dull. Your Brother has ben to see it & has Repacked it & Pickled the Beef being almost spoiled. I shall advertize it & Dispose of it assoon as I can & obey your orders. As to the ntt, Proceed. If you had sent Skins & Tallow it would have answer'd abundantly better than Provisions. As to what you wrote me with Regard to Reserving Room for you to put in 100 {barrels} I should be glad to oblidge you but the Gentlemen to whome I Charter her has wrote me for full the number {barrels} she will carry. For any Command this way Should be glad to Serve you & am
{Sir} {your} {Humble} {Servant}
{per} {Captain} Bacon
Boston 30th July 1745
{Mister} William Snoad
{Sir} This acknowledge the Receipt of your {per} {Captain} Bacon & Morton. I note the Contents {by} Whome Rece'd Bills of Lading for 87 {barrels} Tarr which have Disposed of for your acctt @35/ {per} {barrel} which is very Low but their being Such a great Quantity in now & no Demand that makes it very dull & to have Let it lain on the wharff it would Presently have Run out & the Charges of Trucking & hauling would have been So Great that it would not have paid for it. I have herein acted for you as I Should have Done for my Self. If it had been my own am In hopes In the fall when their Comes to [Great?] deal to be a number of vessels Going home that it will Rise again. There is a great Deal here unsold. I have not as yet Delivered the tarr So that I Cant make out acctt Sales & Send you the Returns but will {per} the first Vessel. I am Sorry [?] tarr Should be So dull at your first Sending here but if had not
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Sold it. I am sure you must have lost more than you will now. I am very much obliged to you for your Consignment & Shall always Endeavour to Serve you to the best of my Power. [?] in any Commands this way I am
{Sir} {your} Very {Humble} {Servant}
Boston 30th July 1745
{Colonel} {Benjamin} Payton
{Sir} This acknowledges the Receipt of yours {per} {Captain} Bacon & Morton by whome have Bill of Lading For 60 {barrels} Tarr which have Sold at 35/ {per} {barrel} which is Very low but is the most I Could Get for it. I Suppose their is at Least In Town Four Thousand {barrels} tarr unsolf by Reason their is no Demand for it & as your {barrels} were very Poor. If So be I had housed them what with the Leakage Truckage & Storage of them I believe you would have ben a Great [?] Loser for this is a Very bad time In the year for ^to Let Tarr Stand. As to what Tarr you Consigned between {Mister} Hubbard & my Self we have [housed?] as {Mister} Hubbard Thought best tho if it had be^en Consigned to my Self I Should have Sold it. I Don't Doubt but Tarr will be In Demand again Some Time hence but your {barrels} are Very Poor & they must wast a Great Deal by Lying & if Tarr Should Rise you may not get more than by Selling it now. I Generally Think the first offer is the best however on the whole I think I have Endeavoured to Consult your Interst as much as I possible Could & Should have Sold ^it if it had ben my own. Your Tallow {per} {Captain} Morton I have Sold but as the Tarr is not as yet Deliverd I Could not Send the acctt Sales; but {per} the first Vessel you may Expect them together with your ntt Proceeds. I have paid {Captain} Morton the order you Drew upon me. I have ben Constantly Ever Since you wrote me looking out for a Vessel to Send you but Cant Get one. I have Sent my Sloop back to {Captain} Pilkington & {Mister} Palin. You Say you have Seen her but She Dont Suite I Cant but think She would Do very well to Keep Running. She will Carry Five hundred {barrels}
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and a good deal light pay & their is nothing like having a vessel of ones own for a constant trade. Their is no buying vessels now that are worth any thing without they are old and want new rigging or sails which for to be bought new for such a vessel as mine would raise her to above two thousand pound. But you may act your own pleasure as to the sloop of [Stoadly?] he wont take under sixteen hundred pounds & she would want new sails. For a little while I am informed Capt. Morton told you you might buy vessels for almost nothing here which if he did he misinformed you. Their is some prize vessels in deed sold here as we think cheap but old vessels wont do. They are like old houses constantly wanting repairing. Should be glad of a line from you {per} first opportunity & in any command this way should be glad to serve you.
am with due respect {sir} {your} very humb. serv't.
Boston 30th July 1745
Mr Christopher Guin
{Sir} This acknowledge the receipt of yours {per} Capt Bacon. Inclosed I have your acctt. disboursments for the sloop. I was quite surprized to find you charged me £20 for one barrell pork. & Capt Stone informed me he could buy what he would for £12.10-- and £13--. & your commissions w'ch was who what was never heard of before. And this after I had paid the cash out of my [?] pockett for a vessel for you according to your directions. I think the least you can allow me since you have not taken her is to allow me damages for she is intirely lost to me not being large enugh for my other business. & shall always look upon it as to be a peice of injustis if you dont now pay for her and take her. I could not have thought you would have treated me so thus. As to what I heard of you was only a caution. If so be you took her to have security which I think is reasonable if a man is worth ever so much. I hope you will consider what a damage you have done & if you dont take her make me some hansome allowance. I shall allow £13-- for your pork as to commission I never heard of before. I have just sold your tarr for 35/ the most I could get. There is a great deal of tarr in now and unless I had kept it a great while thereby a great deal
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would have been wasted. I could not get more & I look upon it more for your advantage to sell it than keep it. & I would have done just so if it had been my own. When the Tarr is delivered shall send you acct. sales & your balla. Would be glad of a line from you {per} first opportunity. I am
{Sir} {your} Humb. Ser't.
{per} Capt. Bacon
Boston 30th July 1745
Mr Charles Simpson
{Sir} I recei'd yours {per} Capt. Bacon as also a Bill Lading for [?] 25 {barrels} Tarr which have dispersed of @35/ {per} {barrel} which was the most I could get. I thought I ^had better sell it at once than house it for their would be many charges on it. That I believe you would lose more than by selling it now I have acted as I think for your interest. As soon as the Tarr is deliver'd will send you acctt. sales & ntt. proceeds & in any service this way I am
{Sir} {your} Humb. Ser't.
{per} Capt. Bacon
Boston July 30th 1745
Doc. Walley Chauncy
{Sir} This acknowledg. the Receipt of yours {per} Capt. Bacon by whome have bill lading for 18 {barrels} tarr & {per] Capt. Morton 14 {barrels} w'ch have disposed of for 35/ {per} {barrel} the same as I did the others and was the most I could posible get. I had some thought of housing of them but when I consider'd them how many {barrels} were housed already & the charges that would attend it I could not but apprehend but that it would be more for your advantage to sell them att once. It was what I should do with my own. & then the {barrels} in generall were so poor that I am sure they would never have stood to have ben housed. I am very much obliged to you for what service you did me with respect to Mr. Guin taking {the} vessel. To be sure I was accordingly exceedingly disappoin'ed in the man & as I have wrote him I was never treated so in my life to buy a vessel