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Per Capt. Sellar

Boston May 10th 1765

Dear Sir

My forwarding the inclos’d letters per post youl much oblige

Your most hum’l serv’t

Flour . . £4.17.6 to £5
Corn . . . 22/6 to 24/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A: E: Rum 11/ to 12/
Wheat . . 30/ to 32/6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W: J: d’o . .17/6 to 18/
Rye. . . . .25/ to 26/3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cotton if the best 17/
Ship Bread about 90/ to 100/ . . . . . . . . . Coffee 5/6 to 6/
Pork . . . £10 to £22.10/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cocoa about £25
Bcef . . . 15 to £20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .French Indigo 50/ to 55/
B: Sugar . . .10 to £18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamacca Fish . . £5
Powder d’o . . 14 to £20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mackrell £9. 2/a £11.7/
Loaf d’o . . . . . . . 6/6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exchange 10 to 10/8 for 1
Molasses . . . . . . 9/ / Mr Tho’s Smith

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Per Capt. Sellar via Phil’a

Mr. Brian Philpot

Sir

Maryland corn has lately taken a start to 22/6
per quantity out of vessels & 24/ out of the stores & like to be a rising
article till the new crop comes in. Rye 25/ to 26/3 will hold till harvest.
Wheat 30/ to 32/6, flour £4.17.6 to £5, barr Iron £180, pigg d’o of the best
sort £67.10/, ordinary will not sell, ship bread might felch £4.10/ to £5.
White beans 30/, grean wax 5/, bees wax 10/. Maryland Pork £18 to £20 [???]
d’o. beef £14 to £15. These prices are in old tenor at 45 per dollar or
6/ for 1/ of your curr’y. Exchange with London 10 to 10/8 for 1. I am

Your most hum’l serv’t

P.C. as to Mr. Lowndes of this date.

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Per Capt. Sellar via Phil’a

Boston May 10th 1765

Mr. Peter Field Frent

The foregoing is copy per Capt. Ford, am now to
advice you that Maryland Corn is lately risen from 2/3 to which it had fallon to
half a dollar per Bush, & likely to be still rising till the new crop, Rye 3/4 to
3/6 & will continue in demand till harvest. Virginia Pork falled with corn
220.10 in a bbl 48/ to 50/. Beef 37/4 to 40/, Wheat 4/4. Oates 2/.
Flour 13/ to 13/4. Ship bread about 12/ to 13/, White bread 4/, bayberry wax 8,
bees wax 1/4, beef tallow 6’d a 6’d/2. Exchange with London 33/3 @ 25 pct. I am

Your most hum’l serv’t

P. Curr’tt as to Mr. Lowndes of this date.