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Mr. Robert Cary

Corotoment 2th. 1733

Sir,

In all my letters, I have omitted writings for some materials for one of my mills which there is an absolute necessity for. I would you have sent me for this purpose, send me in two frogs for a wheel 4 feet 4 inches diameter, 2 gudgeons two spindles four feet six inches long three inches broad & 1 3/4 inches thick, with good substance brasses for them to turne it & a brass strip for the spindle to turn upon. These are to be sent in to James River. I am

Sir,

Your Most Humble Servant

John Carter

By the Bailey

Copy by the Cheap Cap. Waff

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Mr. Wm. Dawkins

Corotomon Sept 4th 1733

Sir,

My brother & I have been frequently together doing business, & yet have allways forgot to give a bill of excha. to Mr. Wm. Camp, who has had a salary of five pounds of my father for several years past. I have now drawn on you for that sum, & tho my brothers are not here to sign it, I hope such a trifle will make no difficulty, but that it may be paid & charg'd to my fathers estate.

I beg the favour of you to give my service to my brother George, & let him know I shall write to him with the greater pleasure when he informes me that he is settled at Cambridge to his satisfaction.

[in pencil:] *died in London and was burried in the Temple Church - Sir [?]

I am Sir,

Your Most Humble Servant

John Carter

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Corotomon Sept. th 4 1733

Micajah Perry Esq.

Sir,

This incloses to you the following bills of exchange amounting to thirty eight pounds three shillings and six pence, which I desire you to negotiate & carry to the credit of my fathers estate.

Hen. Fitzhugh on Ja. Buckanan of London 16,,18,,6

Hancock Lee on Jonathan Forward ... d ... 7,,5,,0

Wm.

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Wm. Read on Robert Burridge of Lyme. £4,,0,,0

Eliz. Grant on Rich and yonward of york. £10,,0,,0

to the sum brought over £24.3.6 -------£38.3.6

I am apprehensive that some I have in Buckleres by mistake gone consigned to Mr. Cary, which I did design for you; for I know not what is become of that bill of lading nor who took them. But I should be sorry to be guilty of such a practice as to draw on you for three hudred pounds & the tobacco should go to other hands: so I desire you to take it up and dispose of it for me.

I think I shall never have done troubling you but I must beg the favour of you to send me a sloop's hawsen, two anchors, cordage for shrouds & running rigging for a forty hhd. sloop besides what I have already writ for of this sort. Capt. Cant will advise you to the proper size of these things. I must also desire you to send some things for our church use according to the patterns & note inclosed.

I am,

Gentlement

Your most humble servant,

John Carter

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Micajah Perry Esq. & Co.

Corotomon Oct. 13. 1736

Gentlemen,

In the absence of the executors of the decesed [deceased] Collonel Carter the elder, this serves to inclose to you the following second bills of exchange which you are desired to negotiate of place to accot. of that estate, to wit,

Wm. Brent on Joh. Forward of Londn. [London] 16..0..0

Edwd. [Edward] Spoore on Nick. Buckanan do. 5..0..0

Francis Anbrey on Sam Hyde & Co. do. 23..0..0

-----£44..0..0

Gentlemen,

I am,

your most humble servant

Rich. Chapman

By the forward Cap Bucheredge

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Orders to Jacob Velline Master of the little Betty Brigantine bound for the Island of Madera

Capt. Jacob Velline

Rappahanock River Virga. N.10th.1733

We have now intrusted you with our Brigantine the Little Betty whereof you are master & fourth part owner loaden with two thousand three hundred & seventy one bushell of wheat & seven hundred & twenty nine bushells of corn, & sixteen hundred & sixty seven foot of plank you are with all imaginable expedition to go to the island of Madeira & there immediately deliver our letters to Messieurs Hayward, Rider & Chambers, the gentlemen to whom we have consigned our Brig. & observer their orders in the delivery of your cargo, & taking on board such wines as they shall order you. Then you are to return directly to Rappahanock River where you are to come ashore at the secretary's, & in case he be not at home to dispatch a messenger to his house at Shirley & another to the falls of the river to Mr. Charles Carter's. Then you are to go to the naval officer & collector & make a report of of your vessel by not to enter or deliver any of your papers untill you receive orders from one of us. You must apply to the merchants to whom we consign the vessel for you port charges. We wish you a good voyage & are

Your Friends

John Carter Chs. Carter ____________________________________________________

To Messieurs Hayward &Chambers Merchts. in Madeira

Rappa. River Vira. N.10.1733

Gentlemen.

We have often troubled you with letters for small parcels of wines for our own private use, which we have found very good, or otherwise according to ye. vintage but now, that we may shew a particular regard to the friendship of our old acquaintance Mr. Rider we have consigned our Little Betty Brigantine Jacob Villine master,

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Master, bringing you bills of loading herein inclosed for two thousand & sixty one bushels of wheat, & seventeen & twenty nine bushels of corne [corn], & a small quantity of plank amounting to sixteen hundred & sixty seven foot. We have observed here that the trade from Madeira hath fallen into disgrace by the badness of the wines imported so we intend to be upon a better footing & to offer none to sale but what we can warrent. And that we may trust as little to fortune as possible, we desire you to send us the best wine in the Island without regard to the price or to the value of the cargo, let it sell for what it will, though we doubt not of your best indeavours therein. We desire it may be put up in the best cask, well secured with iron hoops, believing that by these means what can't be sold off the first year will go off then [eat?]. Colonel Randolph has sent a letter to your company for two pipes of wine and Sir John Randolph has sent to Mr. Pope for the same quantity which we desire may be sent. If their [there] is an offer made of freight from Capt. Pear or Colonel Spotswood or any other person to this colony, we are willing that the brig should take it in. And we desire you will send as much as Mr. Landon Carter & Mrs. Wormeley's wine shall amount to of the best sort. That we may not have the Brigantine come dead freighted, after you have comply'd with what our cargo & the accidential freight shall amount to, we have determined if there should be occasion, to go as far as four hundred pounds sterling to fill her up, and for that purpose have sent you inclosed letter to our merchants to comply with your drafts for that sum, or as much of it as you shall have occasion to use, depending upon your judgment in sending us the best of wines without having regard to its being on the cargo accot. We formerly drank some at Governor Drysdale's an[d] Colonel Spotswood's tables recommended as mountain wine from your house. We desire you to send us two pipes of that sort for our own private use, & two hhds of your best malmsey to be marked EIC No. 1.2.3.4. The cargo wine is to be marked L B

As we are executors of Colonel Pages last will, we will remit to you in sterling money what is due to you from that estate, as we shall know what

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what it is; for we are not acquanted with your exchange. We want five hundred foot of fine Madeira wood fit for tables or wainscotting, to be worked up in Colonel Page's house. We desire you to send us this quantity, for which we will remit you bills of exchange by the first opportunity. We also desire you to send us two boxes of dryed citron. We order'd some wine for Mrs. Page's & our use by Captain Mallon. If it is not already sent we desire it may be sent by this opportunity: if your wines should be such that you can't depend upon them, you will then have no occasion to make use of the bills excha. but to send us only so much wine of the best sort so the cargo shall amount to.

We are

Gentlemen

Your most humble servants

John Cart

Chs. Carter

If the inclosed letter to Messes. Dawkins & Athawes be made of it must be seal'd up & sent away by the first opport.

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To

Messieurs Dawkins & Athawes Merch. in London

Rappahanock Nov 12th 1733

Gentlemen

You are already acquainted with our intentions of sending a brigantine to the Madeiras. We are apprehensive that our cargo will not be sufficient to load our vessel according to our desire. Therefore we must acquaint you that we have Messieurs Hayward Rider & Chambers (to whom we consign) to proceed as far as four hundred pounds if there should be occasion; & they must value themselves upon you for the same, which we hope you will punctually comply with.

We are,

Gentlemen

Your most humble Servants

John Carter Chs. Carter

By the Little Betty Via Madeira

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