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page_039658 (lined off at top) done me [crossed out] agreeable with my request you have paid them the Debt [crossed out] and the interest they may have if they can convince me they are intitled to it but not till then--I wrote you concerning Colo Carter's Estate by Capt Aselby of Bristol and shall say more when I recieve [crossed out] an exact acct of the Tobo made from it the last year all of which you shall have Invoices for the Children & negroes will be sent as usual & complied with---Should I stand in need of goods or Cash I flatter myself you will not disapoint me---once in the year I shall be glad of an acct Currt--Iam Gent yrhbleservt Sir Since the inclosed was finished yours of the 23d of Decembr came to hand wherein I find you have pd off my ballance to Cary's House for which I am now to Thank you. upon a careful examination of my several Letters and Invoices from Messrs Cary & Co I have [remitted?] the Shop notes & bill of Loading for the Goods by Capt Mather so the amount of £ 12..14..8d which charge I am very glad you did not dispute with the Gentlemen--I declare to you upon my honour that I thought this charge in the acct current was an unjust one & altho' I have now the cloaths upon my back whci are the most considerable articles of that Invoice I coult not find out or recollect that they were shipt by Mather--the mistake arose from my inadvertently [crossed out] filing the small Invoice among my Letters instead of the Invoices & {then much [crossed out] which I hope [crossed out] is a sufficient excuse it with honest men [crossed out] but perhaps the above mentions Gentlemen think of me as I do of them that is I would defraud them if in my power--the last acct of sales I receiv'd from [illegible] [crossed out] that House were for 86 hhds Tobo 40 of which were shipt in September 1762, 40 hhds in July 1763 and the other six hhds in July 1763 the nett produce of which several [geankhis?] of Tobo tho but little [crossed out] I was kept out of at least five years and in the mean time am charged with the Interest for Cash paid to get those very Tobos to market-- Can this conduct be [illegible] to be agreeable with justice--I have [envision'd?] those circumstances that you may be prepared to give the gentlemen a proper amount in case they [shall?] contend for [Insersh?] which I hope you will not think [troublesome?] from Gentlemen To Messrs Steward & Campbell of London by Somervell in the Justitia Gent Virginia Corotoman June 25th 1766 Having planted the greater part of my Crop since the Justitia Sailed am Embolden'd to inclose you and Invoice for my Goods of every kind to be sent if possible by Captain Somervell his next Voyage to this part of the world my reason for desiring them so early is that I am disappointed in Goods for the present years use You will perhaps be surprised at the lenth of this Invoice but it contains only such articles as a very large Family cannot decently do without I therefore make no Doubt but that you will be as careful in thier choice and procure them upon as good terms as if for yourselves Mr Campbell knows that I like good things as well as any body but not extravagantly | page_039658 (lined off at top) done me [crossed out] agreeable with my request you have paid them the Debt [crossed out] and the interest they may have if they can convince me they are intitled to it but not till then--I wrote you concerning Colo Carter's Estate by Capt Aselby of Bristol and shall say more when I recieve [crossed out] an exact acct of the Tobo made from it the last year all of which you shall have Invoices for the Children & negroes will be sent as usual & complied with---Should I stand in need of goods or Cash I flatter myself you will not disapoint me---once in the year I shall be glad of an acct Currt--Iam Gent yrhbleservt Sir Since the inclosed was finished yours of the 23d of Decembr came to hand wherein I find you have pd off my ballance to Cary's House for which I am now to Thank you. upon a careful examination of my several Letters and Invoices from Messrs Cary & Co I have [remitted?] the Shop notes & bill of Loading for the Goods by Capt Mather so the amount of £ 12..14..8d which charge I am very glad you did not dispute with the Gentlemen--I declare to you upon my honoour that I thought this charge in the acct current was an unjust one & altho' I have now the cloaths upon my back whci are the most considerable articles of that Invoice I coult not find out or recollect that they were shipt by Mather--the mistake arose from my inadvertently [crossed out] filing the small Invoice among my Letters instead of the Invoices & {then much [crossed out] which I hope [crossed out] is a sufficient excuse it with honest men [crossed out] but perhaps the above mentions Gentlemen think of me as I do of them that is I would defraud them if in my power--the last acct of sales I receiv'd from [illegible] [crossed out] that House were for 86 hhds Tobo 40 of which were shipt in September 1762, 40 hhds in July 1763 and the other six hhds in July 1763 the nett produce of which several [geankhis?] of Tobo tho but little [crossed out] I was kept out of at least five years and in the mean time am charged with the Interest for Cash paid to get those very Tobos to market-- Can this conduct be [illegible] to be agreeable with justice--I have [envision'd?] those circumstances that you may be prepared to give the gentlemen a proper amount in case they [shall?] contend for [Insersh?] which I hope you will not think [troublesome?] from Gentlemen To Messrs Steward & Campbell of London by Somervell in the Justitia Gent Virginia Corotoman June 25th 1766 Having planted the greater part of my Crop since the Justitia Sailed am Embolden'd to inclose you and Invoice for my Goods of every kind to be sent if possible by Captain Somervell his next Voyage to this part of the world my reason for desiring them so early is that I am disappointed in Goods for the present years use You will perhaps be surprised at the lenth of this Invoice but it contains only such articles as a very large Family cannot decently do without I therefore make no Doubt but that you will be as careful in thier choice and procure them upon as good terms as if for yourselves Mr Campbell knows that I like good things as well as any body but not extravagantly |