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Corotomon the 29 August 1732

Mr Wm Dawkins,

Sir,

I can't but suppose that you have heard of the death of my brother Robert. How he may stand engaged with you I know not, at the bottom of your last Acct. [account] Currt. [current] you desired him to observe that he has then out of Cash, & that his third of y. Trying Pan Charge was not then brought to Acct. [account] by the best computat. [computation] yet made of his Affairs, His Debts amount to something more than six hundred Pounds besides what may be due to you & Mr Torrison but no steps have been taken hither toward Discharging them nor any Administration taken out, all Persons may rest assured that there will be no Danger of Losing what they are justly entitled to from my Brothers Estate. Mrs Carteier is at Last Come to a Resolution that my brother Landon & I shall join with her in a Petition for Administation to the Next General Court, & soon after the Affairs relating to that Estat [estate] shall been in some measure settled, We Shall go into a Meathod [method] of paying his Debts. In the meantime I must Desire the favour of you to send the Good which Mrs. Carter desires for the use of herself her Children and her house. They must be charged to the Estate of Robert Carter of west mortland Esq; Deceased. I must also Desire you to pay My Brother Robert's Bill of Exchange to Mr. John Shermer for £50 & his bill to Captain Patriarch for £14 & another small Bill which he drew to some other Person a Little before his Death, but she Could not tell me the name of the person or the sum when she went from me Last Night. I am informed you had six hhd. from my Brother last year, which you have not yet Accounted for, The Quantity of his Tobo. [tobacco] sent to you this year in the Bayley Treckon to be about 26 hhd. of Stemmed Tobaco [tobacco], but that will appear by Captain Doves Bill of Loading. He sent seven hhd. to Mr. Forward by Captain Loney, when these and the 15 sent Last year are Accounted for, it is hoped their will be but very Little due to him.

I am, Sir,

Your most humble Servant,

John Carter

Eldest son of King Carter, who married Eliz. [Hile?] of Shirley 1723 [illegible]

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Corotomon 30th August 1732

Mr. William Dawkins

Sir,

We by several of our Fathers Letters, a year or two ago that the intended to make use of your Assistance in paying part of the Purchase Money for Mr. Lloyds Estate, that his Cash in Mr. Alderman Perry's Hands might not be too much drained. How he might alter his Design afterwards, we can't say, but we find the Purchase was compleated [completed] without any Draughts on you, By this means great Disputes have arisen upon Account of the Discounts not being allowed & the Alderman has before now seen how unkindly it was taken by our Father that he could not have the usual Advantages after so large a sum of his Money had layn idle three or four Years, subject indeed to a payment in the Courtin Chancery, but without any benefit in the meantime in some of his letters he tells the Alderman. He hoped to make him such, Remittances as would retrieve his Credit in his Books and in some Measure make up the Prodigious beach, which this Large Purchase had made, How this could have been effected, we cannot at present pretend to Guess, unless by Bills drawn on you or Mr. John Pemberton of Liverpool, But we find such a large quantity of Tobo. [tobacco] now Sent to this Gentleman, a very great part of which is Stemmed & Consequently for home Consumption, that we can't imagine He could design to draw anything Considerable on him when there would not sufficient remain to [clare?] the Duties. The Conclusion must than [then] be that he intended to have ordered some of the Money in your Posession to be paid to the Alderman, who will not otherwise have Money of our Father's Estate to clare all the Duties of Tobacco's consigned to him this present year, for we do not think proper to touch the bank Stock, not to mention anything of a Large Sum He is to pay to Lord Fairfax. Every person has a right to use his own in the manner he thinks most for his Advantage, but we have been this particular, that we might take off all [Imputation?] of unkindness or jealousie [jealousy], which with truth We assure you is very far from Our thoughts. we have now sent an order on you to pay to [Micajah?] Perry Esq; and Company the sum of One. Thousand pounds Sterling, Which we very [ly] believe Our Father would have done, if he had lived till this time and

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and we persuade Our Selves you will not blame us in Your own Thoughts for Desiring to make the Most for Our Tobacco

We are, Sir,

Your Most Humble Servants,

John Carter. Charles Carter. Landon Carter.

[illegible handwritten in pencil]

Corotomon 30th August 1732

Sir,

At sight of this Our first order and second order of the same Tenor and Date not being Complied with, pay to Micajah Perry Esq; and Mr Philip Perry, Merchants in London or their order the Sum of One thousand Pounds Sterling, and Charge it to the Account of the Estate of Robert Carter Esq; Deceased by the desire of us his Executors

Your Humble Servants John Carter Charles Carter Landon Carter

To Mr Willm. [William] Dawkins & Company Merts. [merchants] in London

Corotomon June 23 1733

Foster Cunliff Esq,

Sir,

As by the consignment of our Fathers Tobo. [tobacco] to you Last year upon Mr. Pembertons retirement from trade we are become engag'd [engaged] with you, we have Sent you this year fifty hhd. of tobacco by the Mary & Katherine which we hope [are?] this is Safe with you - and is now feeling the Effects of an early & flourishing Market. By the Rappahanock Capt. Loxum you have thirty hhd. more for which bills are here enclosed, this we intend to be the Last of our Consignments to your port and from the Expectation we have of a short export this year we have All the reason in the world to Expect a good & satisfactory return for them.

We desire you will Charge us the other half pr[per] Cent to Oblige yourself to make good all Debts. we shall write to you at Large by some other Opportunity when we intend to send you An invoice for some goods, we desire you to give our services to Mr. Pemberton we intend our compliments to him by next Opportunity Sent Loxum bill of Exchange for three pounds Nine Shillings.

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by [y.?], Mary & Katherine our brother Ch-- wrote to you for a Percel of Goods to yo [you], value of two hundred pounds which we desire may, be sent According to his directions they are for Sail & therefore they may be bought at the best Hand.

We are, Sir, Your most humble servts. [servants]

John Carter Charles Carter Landon Carter

Rappahanock Aug 10th 1738 Mr. William Dawkins. Sir,

We find our selves obliged to you for many favours particularly the regard you [Shewed?] to our direction of the thousand pound to Mr. Perry, As you & he are the persons to whom we Shall hereafter send the Chief of our consignments it is with Some Concern that we are under a necessity of drawing on you for the payment of our Debts & Legacies & Sending to you for goods for the Support of our Familyes [families]. In this we have had a particular view to the advantage of The discounts & have gone as far as our ballances [balances] would permit us with the out port. Merchants that the matter might be made therafter to yourself & Mr. Alderman but the demands for this first year have been so great upon us that we fear what will be Left in your hands will not be sufficient to that purpose However as you was so kind last year to give us a particular instence [instance] of your friendship wereafter our felow [fellow] with the Continuance of it And we Would also hope that the Tobo. [tobacco] now sent to you may come to quicker Market then the Last being, Well afour'd from all hands that the present Export fall much below any sence [since] the year 1725 we wish we Could not give you a proof of this in your ship. Bailey, which we fear will not be near full, We made a reserve for her of the same Number of our Fathers Crop that we put on board any Other ship but they coming in first got their Compliment & when we came to make up Capt. Doves part we found our selves imposed upon by our [overseers?] who have made much Less then [than] we Expected. besides - this we have been [alfost] intirely [entirely] disappointed in their [quitrent?] Tobo. [tobacco] of the Northern Neck & that yr. [your?] Ship & Several others