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of the municipal & thirty five for the Interest of the last year; which reduced his Demand to five hundred pounds, if you are so kind as to pay the Money now drawn for. The Articles of fifty pounds of forty pounds in the Accot. [Account] to Colo. [Colonel] Grymes might have been avoided; but I could not well refuse to give one hundred for a peace of Land very near Rosewell, which one Ms Pinco heald for Life, & the Revenion of it was in Master Page. And the forty pounds was paid about a year ago to Colonel Burwell who by Mrs. Bryao Will had a Negro Woman & a Child, the wife & Child of a Valuable slave which she left to one of Colonel Pages Sons; & it was supposed that some misfotune might have been the Consequence if the man had been separated from his wife. The rest of the Accounts was necessary, as it was taken up to pay workmen and discharge other Contingincies [Contingencies] of the Estate I would hope that these Bills being all sent to you might be more easily Complied with; and except Colonel Willis's affair. I will do all I can to avoid drawing on you. by paying off Expences [Expenses] Occasioned here, with the surplus Corn and Wheat. I have herewith sent an Invoice of goods for the two of this Estate which I suppose contains nothing more then [than] is neccesary. I desire they may be sent in some good ship to York River; and least any Accident should at any time Happen, I think it always the best way to have them insured. you many form a Judgment [Judgement] of our present Export from the Quantity of tobacco sent you by this Est. and you may judge of the Loading of most London ships by the Fate of your own. This has not a good Effect on the Market. I know when