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others which depended upon us might not be wholly without our assistance we have been obliged to purchase some tobo. [tobacco] at a very dear rate but it being late before we took this resolution all that we could anyway provide for him will not amount to seventy hhd. the price of tobo. [tobacco] has been so very high in the country many persons who us'd to freight in him & had actually promised him a conderably number were tempted to sell to those who shipt in Capt. Loney & other ships so that the poor man never met with such difficulty nor found less encouragement for his industry in perpetually riding from one end of the River to the other.

The bills of exchange we have drawn upon you this year are one to Colo. [colonel] Grymes for two hundred & Eighty nine pounds five shillings & nine pence one to Mr Landon Carter for two hundred & fifty pounds & one to Colo. [colonel] Nicholas Linith for thirty nine pounds three shillings & one penny, half penny, and the sirs believe are all we shall draw except the money of what may be necessary for the payment of our brother Roberts debts which are not very considerable, & this can create no difficulty, since it is designed that the produce of that estate which was intended him, had he lived, shall be annually consign'd to yourself & Mr. Alderman Perry. We have sent an invoice for some good for our brother Charles, which we desire you to complye with, & we shall shortly transmit you another invoice for the half of what may be necessary for our cousin Bobins estate as soon as soon as we shall know from Mrs. Carter whether particular occasions require.

The tobo. [tobacco] we have sent your this year are twenty hhd. by Malbon thirty by the Spotswood twelve hhd. of which are Rippon hall tobo. [tobacco] and under the old mark us'd by Col. Jennings [PI?] ten hhd. in Loney eleven hhd. by the Burwell ten hhd. by the Hawthorn & five hhd. by Cap. Banks amounting to Eighty six hhd. besides what we shall send you by the Bailey, & 12 or 13 hhd. in a ship in Potomack Capt. Spoors which you would have reciev'd last year had not the want of freight kept him in the country. As this is likely to be the last consignment you will have from our fathers estate, and we shall be oblig'd to make a decisions of the remainder next year we desire the favours of you to take the firsts

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first good opportunity to drispose of the tobo. [tobacco] & transmit us accots. [accounts] of sails & accots. [accounts] current.

We thank you for your endeavors to get our money from Mr. Falconars Exrs. [executors[ & shall be better able to write you fully upon that subject when we have seen Sr. [sir] John Randolph whom we expect a [niset?] from in a few days. we sr. [sir]

your most humble servants

John Carter

Charles Carter

Landon Carter

By the spotswood Copy by the Burwell

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Aug 10th, 1633

Messers Hasswell and Brooks

Gentlemen

We have been favour'd with your several letters one of which is a particular answer concerning discounts & outstanding debts, we do not think it a difficult matter to give a proper reply to this be we choose to wave the dispute to avoid trouble to our selves & you -- your sales of some parts of our tobo. [tobacco] by Capt. Brooks for [o,,?] 1/2 & some by Capt. Cant at [O,,?] 1/4 are very discouraging at a time when we expected some comfort for a low price of many years. However that your ships might not be without the usual assistance of this family we have sent you seventeen hhd. p. the Hasewell & ten by the John their were three more order'd by the first but the shipper found her loaded in her second trip & put them on board another ship.

We have drawn on your for two hundred & fifty pounds to Colo. John Grymes & for twenty four pounds five shillings & two pence to Capt. Loney which we desire may be paid & charged to our fathers estate perhaps we may have a son to confess that we have been too quick on drawing on your before we computed the seven parcels of goods we had from you last year and the quantity of tobo. [tobacco] sent you this, for the bills were ready - paid before we had considered either & cannot now be recalled, you if they exceed the bale. [balance] due to us upon y. sales of our tobo. [tobacco] we cannot imagin[e] that you will let us suffer so far by our mistake as to let them come back protested for though this is the last consignment you will have

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have on account of our fathers estate yet you cannot have so mean an opinion of either of us as to believe we could be easy that you should loose anything, through an instance of your kindness if their should be accasion [occasion] for it. We beg the favour of you to take the first good oppert. [opportunity] of selling the tobo. [tobacco] & transmitting us accots. [accounts] of sales & acco. [accounts] current. That we may make up an acco. [account] of our executorship. We are

Gentlemen

Your Humble servants

John Carter

Charles Carter

Landon Carter

By the spotswood Copy by the Burwell

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Mr John Stark

Sir,

We have endeavored for this year to continue a correspondense on account of our fathers estate having ordered a purchase to be made of eight hhd. tobo. [tobacco] to be shipt on board the hardknute Robert Rogers Master, but whether the tobo. [tobacco] can be had we can't say. This to advise you of our drawing on you for one hundred & twenty pounds payable to Colo. Augustin Moore, which we desire may be paid & charged to our fathers estate. We observe you bring a bad debt against our father for some tobo. [tobacco] sold many years ago. You cannot believe we shall be easie under such a charge no mans estate nor his posterity being safe in such a way of trade. If you will go on in looking over your accots. [accounts] & rectifying for seven years past, your must expect that your self & not your correspondents shall bear y. loss. What further occurs shall be obsent'd to your by Captain Rogers, in the meantime we are Sir,

your most humble servants,

John Carter

Charles Carter

Landon Carter

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Messers Oswald and Company

Corotomon August 10th 1733

Gentlemen

Having lat[e]ly drawn on you two bills of exch. [exchange] both payable to Simon Sallard one for twenty pounds the other for fourteen pounds, we think proper to be thus early in our advice that they be duely answered.

As we intend next year to make a division of our fathers personal estate we must desire you to take the first good opportunity to finish the sailes of our tobo. [tobacco] as well those sent you last year as those you will receive by the thistle & Martha this year, & to tranfer us both our accots. [accounts] of sales and accots. [accounts] current.

The produce of the five hhd. of stemms tobo. [tobacco] sent you last year you must carry to the credit of y. estate of Rob. Carter junior esqr. [esquire] and the bill that shall then be in your favour you must [debetn?] our fathers estate with we refer you to what we shall judge necessary to be writ by the Martha. And are

Gentlemen

By the spotswood Copy by the Burwell

Your Most humble servants

John Carter

Charles Carter

Landon Carter

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Rappahanock 10 1733

Mr James Buckanan

Sir,

By our letter last year we told of the poor encouragement you gave us to promote that correspondance our deceased father had begun with you, we therefor think there is little occasion for us to add except to advise you of a draft we have made upon you to col. Henry Fitzhugh for thirty four pounds one shilling which we desire you to discharge it being for our small [ball?] in your hand.

We are

Sir

For the spotswood Copy by the Burwell

Your humble servants

John Carter

Charles Carter

Landon Carter

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Mr. John Luil

Rappahanock. 10 . . . 1735

Sirs

Your favours of the 26th of Febr. last we have receiv'd & we must acquaint you that we are oblig'd in complyance to our Fathers will for the discharge of legacies to value our selves upon you for one hundred pounds payable to Mr. George Braxton which we doubt not you will honour. Many disapointments have made it impossible for us to send you any tobo. [tobacco] this year and since the estate falls into several persons hands that we many make our divisions of the remainder, as they are intended we desire you will compleat as soon as you can to our advantage the sails of the tobo. [tobacco] we sent last year & transmit us an accot. [account] current. We are

Sirs

Your Humble Servants John Carter Charles Carter Landon Carter

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Mr. Alderman Perry

Sir

I have already writ very largely to you both as exrt. [executor] to my Father and Colo. Page & must now give you the trouble of a letter on my own accot. [account]. I have done your ships some small service which I believe will be to ready acknowledged by the masters, Tho' it is far short of what would have been agreeable to me, But tobo. [tobacco] has been so very scarce and the price so high in the country that almost all sorts of people have been for taking the advantage of it. And it is a wonder that those ships which depend entirely upon freight are not in a worse condition than yours. Mr. Dawkin'se's ship the Bailey, which commonly had one hundred & twenty or one hundred & thirty hhd. from this family, will not now have above seventy by which you will see how imposible it was that I should send a floops load to Capt [Baadby?] in the M[ycah?] & Perry. However that I might let him have a little assistance, I sent him ten hhd. of the pages tobo. [tobacco] from this river. Too not pretend to advize, but these two short crops have made it appear, that that ship is too bigg for your intrest: Besides that, I fear the [Lyes?] under the imputation of a leaky ship, although perhaps it may be without