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please to Dispose of at the very highest price you [?][?]
me Acco[un]tt Sales, & Credit my Acco[un]tt with you, for the whole produce
thereof- I must Beg your Care Respect[in]g the few Casks of
Head matter ye marks & numbers you will see in the Invo[ice]:
I could not well avoid Shipping it, that hope you will
Get it pass'd without Trouble, I doubt not your best Diligence
& Industry for my Intrest in all Respect.

I could with Marshall might be here before the 1st Nov[embe]r
tho' I a little doubt it, if he should be so lucky. I believe I could
Succeed in Clearing him out before he was Loaded; I have
a Sufficiency of oyle to Dispatch him, but I am Confident
after the 1st Nov[embe]r there must be an Entire Stagnation of Navi=
=gation etc, which will throw us into amazing Confusion, & will
Continue unless this Cruel act be Repeald w[hi]ch if not Effected we
are a Ruin'd people; all our Cash must go to answer the
Expences of the act w[hi]ch in two or three years will fall of it self,
as there will be no money left to Defray the Expences of its
further Continuance. But with Respect to myself, I will
be the last man that will submit to Take one, I however hope
things will not be carried to such an ill judg'd extremity as to
Enforce the act; as the fatal Consequences of it will be as much
felt in the End by Great Britain as by us; you can never expect
to Receive your Remittances from hence, & you may depend
we shall be obliged to Live without your Manufactures w[hi]ch
strictly speaking we can do without - you must exert your
selves for us, & I hope soon to hear that the Parliament will
Listen to our Decent Remonstrances, & not only Repeal this
act but Redress many other Grievances we Labour under
w[hi]ch we are not able to support.

Pray send us good Tidings, we are & shall
be a very Distress'd people, but Beg we may be Reliev'd -

I am
Gent[leme]n
your Faithfull Freind,

Messrs Barnards & Harrison

[On left margin]
P[e]r Fleet
P[er] Ashburne
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Mr Thomas Longman Boston, October 28th 1765

Sir

It is some time since I heard From you
with the Magazines etc w[hi]ch Beg in future you will please
to be Regular in sending, I cannot Tell the State of my Acco[un]tt
with you. I desire you will please to call on Messrs Barnards
& Harrison & Receive of them whatever Ballance may
be Due to you, give them your Rec[eip]t & send me your