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on purpose for a man & when it Comes too not be able to pay for her was the greatest Peice of Injustice that Could be. If the Vessell had ben Something Longer Larger I should not have Cared anything about it because She would have Done for my other Business. Wherefore if So be upon the whole he should incline to take her & can anyways pay for her, Should be glad. If not if so be {Colonel} Payton Should Incline & would give good Security so that you might think me Safe I Should be glad for it. Is a Great Damage to me to be so Disappointed. I would take Sixteen hundred pound for her upon good Security. I would be glad you would use your Interst for me. {Colonel} Payton I Know wants a Vessell but would have her Something Larger than this. But cant get one for him as I wrote him and what Ever you agree to there to for for you [?] for you Know the Place better than I will Stand. Do I believe {Colonel} Payton would have taken her before if it had not ben for {Captain} Morton of whome I have as Small opinion as you of him Lately. I am much obliged to you for writing me your thoughts of him as well as Stones. I observe {Mister} Guin in his Disb[?]ursment fl for the Sloop has Charged me [pound symbol] 20 for a {barrel} Pork & [both?] bacon [?] Stone tells me it was but [pound symbol] 13. When they Came away as also Commissions which I have wrote him I shall not Pay. As to [those?] medsons you wrote for will Endeavour to Send them now & as soon as Possible will ^Send you acctt Sales of your tarr. We are all well a give our Love & Service to you and am
{Sir} {your} {Most} {humble} {Servant}
{per} {Captain} Bacon
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Boston 30th July 1745
Capt. Seth Pilkington
Sir
Yours I recei'd {per} Capt. Bacon 22'd Last month & note the Contents. I have rec-d your Bills of Lading 26 {barrels} tarr 69 Drest Dear Skins, & 43 Raw, Six Hides & Silver porringer & have disposed of them. Your tarr I sold very low @ 35/ {per} {barrel}, but I could no possible Get any more for I suppose their is four or give Thousand {barrels} now in Boston unsold and no Vessel going home but what have ben loaded some months. & to have Let it Run out upon the wharff would not have ben for Your Advantage. & if so be I had housed it the Charges to- gether with {the} leaking would have brought it to the same thing So that upon the whole I thought it most for your advantage to dispose of it. & herein I acted as I would have Done for my self. Am in hopes by that Time the Sloop Returns it will be in more Demands a few vessels going home will make a considerable alteration. I will if possible before the Sloop Sails Get a {hogshead} NE Rum & a {barrel} Sugar for you and inclose you the bill of Lading. Have not as yet deliver'd the tarr or would forward you Acct. Sales Remitt you the ntt. Proceeds but that you may Depend on {per} the first Opportunity never designing to Keep the Effects of any man in my hands after the Sales. & as as to to the Skins you consigned me they were very Poor. Their was not above Six of the Raw that ware any thing like and the Drest ware very indiffient so that I could get but a low Price for them. The hides were very Good. I would beg leave for the future to advise you never to Send any Skins weather whether Raw or Drest but what are Right Good for it will never turn to your Acct. to send poor ones. & as to your tarr that is put in Good {barrels}. The {barrels} In generall you consigned me were very Poor. As to what you wrote me Concerning a Remittance you want to make to [???] So. Carolina if so be you Consign me any thing here for that End I will endeavour to serve you to the best of my Power. We have frequent opportunitys of sending there but as to saying what will answer their at all times we Cant [equal?] the marketts
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are So Various. Rum & Loaf Sugar are the Staple Commodities we Send there & if a Vessel Should Come in about the time I want to make the Remittance it is only Enquiring what the markett were at that the time She Came from their So that as I have Charted {Captain} Bacon to you & {Mister} Blin the Sloop Carolina for Twenty five working Days you may write me particularly what you would have Done. & if So be I Should not Sell the Sloop In Carrolina as I have wrote {Doctor} Walley Chauncy if he can Dispose of her for good Pay on good Security being a Very good Vessel for that Business. And Should think it much for a Gentlemans advantage there if he Intended to Keep a Vessel Constantly Running to have one of his own She will Do to come back to you again. Would have you write me your mind particularly about this affair. I have spoke to {Mister} Minott about your acctt and he promisses me he will Settle In a few Days. We have at Last through the Divine Blessing on our arms & military Preparations obtained an Entire Conquest over Cape Britton, a Place of vast Importance to England as well America. And we have Celebrated the Victory with all the Demonstrations of Joy Possible & hope we Shall now have a Revivall of trade among us which has ben upon the Decline for some time. I have nothing further to add but offers of further Service In any Command this ^you may have this way. Am with the utmost Respect
{Sir} {your} Very {Humble} {Servant}
{per} {Captain} Bacon
Boston 31 July 1745
{Messers} Pilkington & Blin
{Gentlemen} This may Inform you that I have Charted the Sloop Carolina {Captain} John Bacon master according to your orders to you & have ordered the master to show you the Coppy of the Charter Party. Begg you would not Detain the Vessell beyond the time & if so be you would incline to Purchase the Vessell to Keep this Trade which I should think would be for your advantage. You may Enquire of {Doctor} Walley Chauncy as to what Effects you Shall consign me. Will Dispose of them as I think most for your advantage. And In any Commands this way am with offers of Service & Due Respects
{Sir} {your} Very {humble} {Servant}
Tarr 35/ Pitch & Turpintine 50/ {per} {barrel} Beef 160/ Pork 200/ if good Corn 14/ Wheat 15/ {per} Bushell Hides 12d to 22d as for Quantity Drest Skins 5/ to 14/ {per} Undrest {ditto} 4/ - 8/ as In goodness
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Boston 24th Nov. 1745
{Mister} {William} Mace
{Sir} This Incloses your Invoice & Bill Lading, as also [?] Current & [?] Sales of your Pork & Beef, wherein you will find Balla due to you 22/ (old Tenor) which is as nigh as I could bring it. I find by your Letter by {Captain} Freeman 6th Octo that you were somewhat uneasie that I had not remitted you your Effects, representing the advantages that would acrue to you & myself thereupon, which I something wonder at when I had wrote you {per} {Captain} Bacon, in what poor Condition your provision was in. I am sure I was never put to it so much in disposing of any before. There was many that [?] would have bought it had it been Tolerable, & it was Imposible to have made it better as the {barrels} were so bad as not to hold Pu[?]le, as your brother can attest. & dont Supose I should ever have disposed of them all, had I not taken Ten to myself to send abroad. Instead of better, to serve you, to be sure {the} price was Low. But I am sure if I had not sold them as I did I should never have sold them at all. I should have been heartily glad to have sold them as once, for I never desire to keep any Gentlemans Effects in my hand a minute as I think I have sufficient of my own to Carry on my Trade. & if I thout I should have occasion to do otherwise, would never accept any further Consignments, for it is my real opinion that tis great Injustus to detain the property of any [men?] in my hand when I have an oppy to remitt it to him. More Especially in the Carro business, which I know depends on Immediate dispatch & if every [?] or any other man find me act Contrary to this principle then leave me. But I wo^uld always advise you if you expect dispatch to send the [R?]est of every thing. Have paid your brother the Bill you drew on me as you will see in your acco. Should be glad of a Line from you {per} the first oppy. [Sir?] in any Commd this way should be glad to serve you. I should think it best if it suited you to Charter a small Vessell to you for Light pay but this I referr to you. I believe I shall Charter a Sloop some Time hence to {Captain} Pilkington Ne[?]te
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and if I can make room for you I will. Which concludes me with sincerity
{Sir} y. Friend & Hum. Servt.
Beef 150/. pork 19[?] 180/. if good corn 15/. wheat 15/. {per} bushell hides 12 [?] to 22 [?] as to quality dress'd skins 5/. to 14/. undres'd {ditto} 4/.8 {per} [?] as in goodness Tallow 2/6
{per} Capt. Freeman & Jones
Boston 24th Nov. 1745
{Mr} William Adams
Sir This waits on you with respect & Incloses Invoice & Bill Lading as also acco. sales as also acco. currt. of your pitch, rec'd {per} Capt. Bacon. You will find ballance due to me ten shillings & nine pence (old tenor) which was ^as nigh as I could well bring it to. But as I expect further consignments from yourself and knowing you to be a substantial man was not so solicitous to make it exact. I have purchased everything I have sent you at the lowest prices they were to be bought, as I paid the cash. This also acknowledges the rec't of yours {per} Capt. Bacon & the inclosed power of attorney with {Mr} George Minot, {Mr} {Stephen} Minot [junior?] & {Mr} Cord Wing, who are indebted to you. I have been with {Stephen} Minot [junior?] who informs me his brother George Minot is not town & he cant settle the affairs without him. Have demanded {your} acco. from him which he has promised me from time to time. I will do what I can in the affair for you. Am heartily sorry you have met with such success. To be sure tis very unjust {the} [?] should be h[?]t out of your mony, when your effects are disposed of as I suppose it is in that case. If you should have an {opportunity} to ship any more pitch, tarr, or turpentine this way believe it would [?] as they are rising. In any comm'ds this way should be glad to serve you & am
Sir y. Friend & sev't.
{per} Capt. Freeman & Jones