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to make out an invoice for the supply that will be necessary for the insuing [ensuing] year which I will then send you, wherein I will be as frugal as possible.

I am

Sir,

Your most humble servant

John Carter

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Mr. Robt. Cary

Corotomon Aug. 11th 1735

Sir,

I have sent with this a bill of loadg. [loading] for sixty one hhds. of stemmed tobacco in your ship Amy which I wish safe to a good market the low price of tobo. [tobacco] in all my accots. [accounts] of sales have dissapointed me very much, & put me under great difficulties both as to paying my debts in this country & sending for goods to supply my several families,& tho I am sensible how how an advance I make in paying off any debt to you, I know not how to avoid troubling you with a small invoice. My gardner & smith left me soon after the end of their time during which I neglected to have some young negroes instructed: & being willing to make another trial, I beg the favour of you to send me two honest sober young fellows if such are to be found in your neighborhood of Hammersmith or Battersey with some gardening seeds & tools, four chaldron of coals & and compleat [complete] sett [set] of smith's files that they may leave England with the less regret. You may undertake for me that they shall be treated with humanity

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