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may Accept it without any further adice [advice].

In the Mazareen we send you ten hhds of tobacco which we hope from the smallness of this present exportation & the poor prospect of the ensuing crop will turne [turn] outt [out] to a better advantage than the last sent you. We are

Gentlemen

Your very Humble servants

John Carter
Charles Carter
Landon Carter

Inclos'd [inclosed] we send you a second bill drawn by Colo. [colonel] Tayloe on y[our]selves for twenty pounds for which we desire credit

Via London

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Messrs Oswald & Compa. [company]

Rappahanock. Aug. 29 1732,

Gentlemen

As executors to our dec'd [deceased] father your letters for the current year comes under our consideration. We shall say nothing reflecting on the discourageing [discouraging] prospect you give of a good sale for the twenty nine Hdds sent you last year, you have well prepared us for the reception of it, by yr. [your] complaints against the quantity of the tobo. [tobacco], we must tell you your port has hardly made any distinction in the prices between the good and the bad and we should be less pleased should our better sort of tobacco ever be made subject to the meanness of your market.

In your letter of the 27. of November last you justify your commission on the whole duty for tobo. [tobacco] sold to export by a kind of desire to quit the trade rather than act on cheaper termes, in answer to which we must begg [beg] leave to transcribe a small paragraph of a letter from your port and submit to your determination who shows most reason & equity. I have suffered some reflection from others, here for a different way of making up my accts. [accounts] in not charging commission on all the duties which they