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on accot. of Colonel Pages estate. I must be contented to be without the money till some more favourably conjuncture. I fear I have reason to blame myself for having bought the overseer shares & said the levies in cash, for tho' the quanitity of tobo. shiped home has by these means been increased, & the estate, by your sales hither to has lost nothing by it yet as you are obliged to give credit, it may be inconvenient to you to pay the money before you receive it of the buyers, I will for the future let the overseers have their shares & the levies be paid out of the tobo.: & tho' the quantity will hereby be lessen'd yet it will go home without these charges that have hither to attended it. I have mentioned something of this to you more than once, & hereing [hearing] nothing in answer to it, I continued my former method perhaps too long. I am, Sir,

Your humble Servant

John Carter

I forgot to tell you that Mrs. Ann Walter has served Mrs. Page as a school mistress many years, but she is now inclined to alter her mind of going to England. I hope you will not be troubled with the bill this year.

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To Micajah Perry Esq; & Compa. [company]:

Corotomon Aug. 12 1735

Sir,

I gave you the trouble of a long unpleasant letter by Capt. Thomas Bolling where I told you I expented [expected] I should find my self under a necessaty [necessity] of directing some part of my fathers estate bank stock to be sold, but considering that some parts of Mrs. Braxton's & Mrs. Fitzhigh's & almost all the small lagacies [legacies] remained unpaid, I was willing to let the stock in yours & Mr. Athawes's custody lie untouch'd [untouched]

[in pencil:] Luey married Henry Fitzhugh - great paid parcel of [illegible] Robt. E. Lee. *