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Boston 24th Nov. 1743
{Mr} {Christopher} Guin
Sir This incloses you invo. & Bill Lading as also acco. sales & acco. curr't. The ballance you will find in your favour twelve pound 10/10 (old tenor) which I should have remitted you but I could no ways bring it nearer. But I am ready to remit it you in any small thing you shall order. But it cant be any great damage to you as no doubt you will have reason to consign further to this plan. & in any commands this way should be glad to serve you & am
{Sir} y. Hum. Se't.
Tarr 40/. pitch 50/. Turp'n. 50/. {per} {barrel} corn 14/. wheat 18/. {per} bushell pork beef 150/. beef pork 180/. if good [dres'd?] skins 5/. [?] 14/ - rising undres'd [ditto} 4/-8/. - rising tallow 2/6
{per} Capt. Freeman & Jones
Boston 24th Nov. 1745
{Mr} {William} Snoad
Sir This waits on you with due respect & incloses you invoice & bill lading sixty six Ells ozenbriggs, as also acco. sales of you tarr & acco. currtt. ballance whereof you will find in my favour three shillings (old tenor). This is the first opportunity I have had of remitting you since the sale. Hope your tarr coming to so poor markett will not discou= =rage you from further consignments. Tarr has been sold for forty & is now upon the rising hand. I can sincerely say I have done what I could for to serve you & will ever do so as long as it shall lay in my power. If you should have an opportunity of freighting any tarr, pitch or turp., tallow hides, skins [etc.?] believe will answer. The prices you have below. Please to give my service to {Colonel} Payton (whom I shall write {per} his sloop Capt. Jones who will sail in four or five days), your brother Henry, Doc. Chauncy & all friends. Which concludes me with due respect
Sir y. very hum. serv't.
Tarr 40/. pitch 50/. turp'e. 50/. {per} {barrel} beef 150/. pork 180/. if good corn 14/. wheat 18/. {per} bush'l drest skins from 5/. to 14/. undrest ditto 4/ - 8/. tallow 2/6
{per} Capt. Freeman & Jones
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Boston 24th Nov. 1745
Sir This acknowledges the receipt of your letter {per} Capt. Jones & note the contents. I shall [put?] on board of him what effects I have of yours in my hands & more. As to the tarr you consigned between Mr. Hubbard & myself, it is yet unsolf & as it is housed had better lay till tarr be more in demand, as I hope it will be in the spring. There has a gentleman been with me about the negro I sent you last & desired me to write you, that if you would send him here again he would give you the money you gave for him & fifty pounds over plus, or anoth =er every way as good & forty pounds more. What he values him for is his being a good workman at the glaziers business, which perhaps you might not value him the more for. Should be glad you would write me your mind about it {per} the first opportunity.
I understand {per} Capt. Jones you purpose to send your sloop to me the next trip. If so you may depend on it I shall do my utmost to serve you & have offered Capt. Jones my assistance in everything he shall want. He would have sailed before this time, had he not desired to have seen his wife at Newbury, but he tells me he has engaged a freight of a hund- =red pound which will do very well. He will now sail in four or five days at furthest. Please to give my hearty service to your son, Snoad & all friends & am with offers of service & due respect
Sir {your} very humb. serv't
tarr @ 40/. pitch 50/. turp. 50/. {per} {barrel} pork 180/. beef 150/. {per} {barrel} if good corn 14/. wheat 18/. {per} bushell drest skins from 5/. to 14/. - {per} [?] undrest ditto ---- 4/ --- 8/. - {per} [?] tallow 2/6 -------------------- - {per} [?]
to {Benjamin} Payton {per} Freeman, Jones
Boston 24th Nov. 1745
Doct. Walley Chauncy
Sir This waits upon you & incloses {the} acct. sales of your tarr, ballance due to you theron, exclusive of any comm. w'h I give you seeing your tarr came to so poor markett is [pound symbol] 14.15.9. I rec'd of Mr. {William} Snoad [pound symbol] 9.19 on your acct. so that your ballance now is fifty ^odd pounds exclusive of the druggs I shall send you which will be about ten pounds. {Your} acct. curr't shall find you {per} Jones so that you may see the exact ballance. Should be glad you would remitt me the ballance {per} {the} first vessell. I should have sent Capt. Payton back again to Capt. Pilkington but as he wrote me would not give more {than} 18/. {per} {barrel} which I could no ways afford to let her go at, and there is no hiring vessells {per} the barrell this time of {the} year. I am sorry I could not procure a vessell for him as I think tarr will be in demand in the spring. I have sent all these gentlemen their
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effects who have consign'd me. I believe they may say they never had their business dispatch'd quicker. {Colonel} Paytons sloop is almost ready to sail. I would have sail'd sooner only as the Capt. had a wife and was desirous to see her but will sail in a few days. I understand {per} Capt. Jones, {Colonel} Payton purposes to send her to me {the} next trip. If so I shall do my utmost to serve him as I would [all any?] friend. I have nothing further to add but my hearty service to all [friends?] & am
{Sir} {your} [?]
{per} Capt. Freeman & Jones
Boston 24th Nov. 1745
Capt. Seth Pilkington
Sir This presents you with both your acct. sales as also invoice & acct. current {balance} wherof you will find in your favour one pound 12/10, old tenor, which was as nigh as I could bring it. I am sorry I could not charter'd my sloop to you again, as I [?] could never have done a 18/. {per} {barrel}, with losing mony. Accordingly have let her to the [?] on a much better lay. Neither can I hire you one at that rate. No man chuses to let his sloop as this time of the year {per} {the} {barrel} & if they did, not under 19/ or 20/. {per} {barrel}, which you would not give. I had a sloop offer'd me this day at one hundred & twenty pound, (old tenor) {per} month, which I woud have taken and run the [risk?] of the time of the year, if I could have acted as I would done my self. You certainly know your own business, but I am inclined to think tarr will be in demand in the spring. Upon the whole I am inclined to think I can hire vessells as reasonable as any man & I should be glad to serve you herin but I am sure no man can let the sloop at the price you mention. Have nothing further to add but my hearty service to all friends & am with due respect & offers of further service to you
{Sir} yr. hum. se't.
PS: Since my finishing the inclosed invoice I bou't the tea mentioned herin w'ch unexpectedly started 5[?] {per} [?] I likewise bought you 2 canisters for [?]/. so {the} ballance is 2/10. {The} [prices?] of {the} [commoditys?] govern much as I wrote you last
{per} Freeman & Jones
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Boston 24th Nov. 1745
Mr. Daniel Bliss
{Sir} This acknowledges the rest of your favour {per} Capt. Bacon together with Capt. Pilkington & note the contents, as also for 193 {barrels} tarr & 67 turpentine wh. have dispersed [?] for your acct. As you will find {per} acct. sales inclosed your tarr & turpentine wanted considerable of being full altho the barrells themselves were good, many of the tarr being half full of water. I think they sold very well, considering what a low price they bore when I charter'd the sloop to you. You will find upon the whole the ballance due to you one hundred & ninety ^four pounds 15/6 which I retain in my hand, to obey your orders. I should have sent you a negro boy {per} this {opportunity} if I could have got one that would have suited you. One hundred & sixty or seventy pounds is the very lowest price they are to be purchased at. I have given so for several & have sent to Carolina but hope I shall [?] further [?] consignments from you quickly as you were pleased to intimate in your letter that I may send them both to- gether. In the mean time, shall be looking out for one to send you if I have an {opportunity}. I should not have valued disbursing the cash so as to send you both if it had been twenty or 30 pounds, but as I must advance 150 or 60 pounds I could not so well do it, especially without being allowed interest for the time I was out of my mony. I observe Capt. Pilkington & yourself have wrote me to charter you my sloop to you again @ 18/ {per} [barrel?] which will never answer. As to what others do I cant say tho I know 19/ or 20 freight is given & as that considering freight portidg bill & other charges tis but a poor story. Since then the [province?] have hired her to go to C. Breton & have offer'd very handsome, but I have endeavoured to hire other sloops but they will not let 'em by {the} {barrel} & if they do, not under 19/. But as you limitted me could do no further. I believe you would have found your [?] in it if you had one [per?] the month as I am inclin'd to think tarr will [fetch?] [?] in {the} spring. I had a great mind myself to have hired one {per} the month & sent you, only as the chance would be so
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great, whether I could have dispatch'd her immediately. Should be glad of a line from you {per} first {opportunity} & in any comm'ds this way am ready to serve you & am with respect
{Sir} {your} {humble} {servant}
PS: the prises in general govern as I wrote you in my last.
Since I wrote the above {per} Capt. Freeman there is a vessell come in from Cape Breton which brings advise that Capt. Bacon purpos'd to proceed from thence to you & Capt. Pilkington at Carrolina as I order'd him if he could not come on this coast as to the freight as I wrote you above is 19/. {per} {barrel} as you wrote for at 18/. if she should come in to you must leave it to your [?].
{per} Capts. Freeman & Jones
NB: {the} above postscript I wrote to Mr. Pilkington
Boston 4th Dec. 1745
Mr. William Payton
Sir This waits upon you with respect to acquaint you, that I am inform'd {per} Capt. Jones, that you are just coming into business & would be glad to have a correspond't here {that} you could confide in. I would therefore offer my hearty service to you. Altho strangers to each other, not doubting but I shall give you content ^in any thing you shall consign me. I have the pleasure to have an acquaintance, by letter with your brother, whom I respect. I know {the} advantage of {your} business chiefly con[?]ts in quick remittances which am always carefull to do, provided your effects come to a good markett. I am sure it must be a damage to {gentlemen} to be kept out of their mony a long time after their effects are disposed of, which I know is often the case. I have now a power of attorney by me [?] upon several gentlemen here who are men of [estates?] but have unreasonably detain'd the propertys of several gent'n with you ^for 12 mos. after {they} have disper'd of {the} effects which I look upon as very unjust