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intended some thing more considerableby Capt Anderson this Voyage but a very short crop has prevented me. I wish the Leeds a safe Passage and am Gentlemen Yrs & 6

Chars Carter

To Messrs Jordan & Maxwell, London
by the Leeds Capt Anderson
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Gent. Virginia Corotoman April 11th 1767

I have just now drawn a Bill on your House For twenty pounds payable to Colo Richard Corbin which draught you will please to honour

Captain Anderson did not call for my Letters on his way down the River however I gave hime Nine hhds Tobo and Shall inclose bills of Loading For them as soon as they come to hand

I am Gentlemen
Yr most hble Servt
Chars. Carter

To. 1000 [blls of german Oznabrigs 50 duseh blankets -- 2 MaMrssles plhe Justitia Capt Somervell

Infrom'd Stewart & Campbell of the Draught from the Executors of [Char?] Estate for £ 1200 [shirly?] by Capt Neeks also of my Purchase of Littlepages Land May 1st 1767

To Messrs Jordon & Maxwell
London
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Gent Virginia Cortoman May 25th 1767

The Toyal is arrived and by her your Letter of the 15th Janry covering Sales for my 30 hhds Tobacco is come safe to hand. I entertain a very hight opinion of your Integrity and threfore am safisfied that Messrs Stewart & Campbell have done the best they could for my Interest in the disposal of this consignment but Dear Gentlemen how could you expect that so mean a price as 9 3/4 and 2 1/2 would meet my approbation for top stem'd sweetscented Tobo which I declare to you I took true pains in having made fit for the best market and must ingenuously confess that I expected the highest price for

You will receive forty & one hhds of my Tobo by the Justitia upon which I wrote for Insurance but Shall not order a penny worth of goods as I fall so much in your debt--about one third of the quantity I now send you is stript leaf and all of it the genuine York River sweetscented kind. I mus therefore beg the favour of the House to make out distinct acct of Sales for the stemed and Leafe Tobo or some mark of distinction by which I may find out the price of each sort
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