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& have all the encouragement they can before I have drawn a small bill of seven pounds to Mr. Charles Stagg, which I desire may be paid & I will not trouble you any more this year, unless Sir John Randolph should desire it very much, and then I will draw on you in October next for the same sum which you was so good to promise to pay to Mr. Wm. [William] Brown I once intended to have sent a power of attorney to Mr. Alderman Perry for the sale of twelve hundred pounds bank stock part of three thousand bank stock bought of my father many years ago in Mr. Richard Perry['s] name, which was to have been applied towards paying off my bond & mortgage to you, & my brother had consented to it. But upon a consideration that we were obliged to draw upon the Alderman for a larg [large] sum & had almost got to an end of our cash in the merchants hands, & that many of my father]s small legacies were still unpaid, we resolved to let that be untouch'd some time longer. My sixty one hhds. were put aboard in my own sloop & slatt; & fourty six of them, being brought from the head of Pammunky & Mallopony. I thaught [thought] I might expect four shillings a hhd. for the should quantity. But Capt. Newham being desirious to leave it to your determination, & I was unwilling that he should run any hazzard of disobligeing you, I made no difficulting of consenting to it. I am,

Sir

Your Most Obedient Humble Servt.

John Carter

P.S.

You have here also a bill of lading for one hhd. tobo. [tobacco] C PN No. 14 to be acced. [accounted] for by itself