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45 Mr William Stewart Boston April 20th 1765 Sir I duly {received} your {favour} of 20th Ulto.{per} Capt. Taylor with his receipts for 1 Barrell & 1 Box Bayberry Tallow, One Barrell of Beef Tallow & one Bagg of Bees Wax, which have since Sold for the most the markets would admit of, Sales thereof you have on the other side, Neat proceeds £ 19.12.2/2 Lmo. which have Carried to {Credit} of your {Account} {Current} the Bees Wax falls short 1lb of the weight in the receipt, & the Bay Tallow 2 lb which shall leave with you to settle with Capt. Taylor as I shall not deliver him up his receipt, tho' the Bees Wax was near standing weight at 70 lb & the Tare of the Box of Bay Tallow was 2 lb more the mark on the head, dont Imagine any of either was taken out, the Bagg & Box will be kept till youwant them, dont think you have any chance of a market here that will answer for either Check'd or Strip'd Flannen or Soc Cloth. Teneriffe Wine may be had now @ £3.12? {per} 2[?] Cask, have paid your order in {favour} Messrs. Thomas & John Greene for £7.17.4 Lmo. & Charg'd the same to your {Account}. I am with [minompliments?] to your [crossed out] Father & family Your {humble} Servant
Price {Current} Wheat about 32/6 Flour £5 Corn 18/@ 20/ Rye 22/6 Pork £20 @ 22 " 10 Beef £13 @ £15 Molassess 8/6 @ 9/
{North East} Rum 11/6 @ 12/ {West} India do 17/ 18/ B Sugar £10 " @ £16 Powder do £13 @ £20 Loaf do 6/6 Cotton 16/ @ 17/ Coffee 5/9 @ 6/
Cocoa about £25 French Indigo 55/@ 60/ {Jamaica} fish £5 Mackrell £9 " 2 . {Exchange} at par
Boston April 22d 1765 Mr. Henry White Sir I {received} your {Favour} of 15th {Current} requesting that I would send you a good hand for a Clerk & Book keeper, you may rely on my best endeavours to procure you one as soon as possible, having advertiz'd in this days paper for that that purpose, by next post shall be able to inform you how I succeed. If I meet with a person that will answer for you no time will be lost in dispatching him. the Gentleman I advis'd you I was treating with for the Nails offers 6d New York {Currency} [??] for them, will pay part down & the remainder in monthly payments till he finishes the which will not exceed 3 months, if these terms suit please to advise, mean time I am Your {humble} {Servant}
P.C. as above
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Boston April 22rd, 1765
Mr. Lawrence Kortright
Sir
I duly rec’d your fav’r of 15th inst’t acknowledging rec’t of mine of 18th ult’o & 8th inst’t the former inclosing Timothy Fitch’s bill on Sampson Simson for £200 New York curr’y, & James Brown’s 1st bill on Henry Davidson for £50 sterling, the former you say is paid. Inclos’d you have 2’d & 3’d bills of the latter, these being indorsd by the agent victualler at Halifax, doubt not will be safe.
I now inclose you sales of cotton & sugar per Wimble, neat proceeds £562.4.4/4 lm’o which have carried to cr. of your acco’tt curr’tt which is inclos’d also, balance in my fav’r £6.4.11/4 like money, which shall draw for when have occasion. I have not yet rec’d the money for the 5 hhds sugar sold Andrew Hall amounting to £68.19.3 but look upon it as quite safe. Note what you say of cotton, it is very scarce here, the last sold at 17/. I am
Your most hum’l servant
Price curr’tt as per letter to Mr. W’m Stewart of 20th Curr’tt.
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Boston April 22rd, 1765
Mr. Aaron Lopez
Sir
I rec’d your fav’r of 18th inst, am obligd for your intention of remitting the money here for your bond to Mr. Woolseys executors out of the 1st bills you draw on Bristol, as it will be wanted here in a short time, observe Mr. Marache has orderd you to charge me with the freight &c of his & Mr. Asher Myer’s goods per Sheldon, but as I have no money of either of theirs in hand nor any acco’tt open with them, must begg youl apply to them for it, am pleasd my transaction in your affair with Mr. Hoskins is to your satisfaction. I shall know ere long whether Capt. Noble accepts the order when will advise you, am sorry for the cause of your anxiety for your son, hope it may be remov’d. I am
Your most hum’l serv’t
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Boston 22nd, April 1765
Dear Sir
I am fav’d with your 18th curr’tt giving me the pleasing acco’tt of the sale of the Yellow Bird to Mr. Joshua Saunders who is the purchaser I hinted to you some time agoe, beleive it best to take a note of Messrs. Harts for the ballance yet due including the interest already due together with that of the 1400 dollars till paid, am much oblig’d for your attention to my interest, the methods you propose to persue for the recovery of the moneys due from Mr. Mumford, Isaacks, Snell & Southwick & Clark I approve, but should been much better pleas’d they had not lain me under the disagreeable necessity of obtaining my right by a course of law which I have ever endeavourd to avoid as much as possible, but find it cant be always done. I shall embrace the first oppor’y of laying out a pistereen for the defence of the Halifax letter, if it silences its oposers it is more then I expect for some authors pike themselves on having the last word. We shall be very glad to see you & your daughter & shall with pleasure shew her all the countinance we can, mean time I am with mine & Mrs. Lloyds comp’ts
Your most hum’l serv’t
P.S. Mr. Vassall tells me he once attempted at a club to multiply 9 figures by 9 by his memory, says he made only one mistake & told where it was, is not confident he rectifyd it, but thinks he did~
Martin Howard esqr.
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Boston April 22nd, 1765
Mr. Metcalf Bowler
I rec’d your fav’r of 19th curr’tt advising of rec’t of the 15 bbs beef & the acco’tt curr’tt & that you had duly noted them. I am extreamly sorry to hear the fish turns out bad, neither Mr. Hall nor myself can I think be chargeable with any blame, he having none of his own by him borrowd it of a friend who imported it from Plymouth, & I employed one of our best & honestest coopers, a large dealer in & a good judge of fish to inspect it before I rec’d it, who reported it to be good & in good order or I should by no means have rec’d it. I do not recollect that you insisted on every hhd being opend or it wou’d certainly have been done, had it been for myself I should not have been more careful. I am apt to beleive its might take damage in the passage as is very often the case of the very best fish, the whole of the fish I had of Mr. Hall were packt at Plymouth & of course he must be ignorant of any deceptions should there be any. Miss Pen was well yesterday. I am with best comp’ts to you & your good lady
Your most hum’l serv’t
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Boston April 22nd 1765
Dear Sir
I rec’d your fav’r of 1st curr’tt a few days before which the potatoes &c for Mr. Temple came to hand who is oblig’d to you for them, the surveyor general desires me to inform you that every vessell that arrives in your district having dutiable commodities on board must proceed with them to New York to enter & pay the dutys, also desires youl keep your accounts regularly till he calls for them. I have not so much as hinted to him what you mention of the design of apply’g home for leave that the Kings dutys may be rec’d by you because I am sure it would give disgust, I am
Your most hum’l serv’t
Mr. William Hubbard
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Boston April 22nd 1765
Gent:
I duly rec’d your fav’r of 15th curr’tt inclos’g a letter to Mr. Nath’l Wheelwright (which was dtd), also a bill of £756.1.3 sterling drawn at Burdeaux by De Belouan the 29th Dec’r last, order Lewis Teissier on Mr. Wheelwright & a notorial copy of the agreement between him & the drawer. The bill is accepted (& inclos’d herein you have it return’d for your indorsment) tho’ Mr. Wheelwright will not have it in his power to pay it. Since he accepted the bill he wrote me a line relative to it, copy whereof you have at foot, on its being sent back to me again it will be presented for payment & if refus’d will be returnd you with protest. One of the gentlemen appointed by the creditors to examine into his affairs tells me, there is no doubt with him but he has estate sufficient to pay 15/ in the pound after Mr. Apthorps demand is satisfy’d, & if properly manag’d, may nearly pay the whole, tho’ it will be a work of time, no one imagines he will have much if anything left for himself. I shall at all times with pleasure receive & execute to the best of my power, any commands you shall please to lay on
Yo’r most hum’l servant
Price curr’tt as per letter to Mr. William Stewart of 20th inst’t
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Boston April 22nd 1765
Mr. Richard Derby
Sir
I acquainted Mr. Tisson with the proceedings of the custom house against you to bring on a sryall against the sloop young moses & cargo. to obtain a forfeiture of the money in your hands for y same. That gent in answer to mine expresses a great surprize at any such attempt & is resolved to defend his interest to the last, but at the same time is of opinion that he is secure by your bond & the securitys you have given him, which bond he thinks you must pay on a judgmentt being obtaind at Home, let the issue of this attempt end one way or the other & I am of the same opinion & that it behoves you to stir yourself in this affair. I must needs say I think you were a little remiss in not in forming me imediately of the citation serv'd on you as it had done in town, your letter inclosing the citation from Salem I duly rec'd. I would not willingly suspect your incouraging this prosecution, it would be to gross a reflection on your good charactor & sense. I am
Your hum'l servant
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Boston 22nd April 1765
Mr. Gideon Sisson
Sir
I have your fav’r by the post & have taken care to secure Mr. Otis & Mr.Fitch to defend your property in the young moses & cargo. I should be glad to give you assurance of Mr. Gridley's assistance likewise to whom I offerd a fee on the first intelligence soon after my first letter to you, but found he had been consulted & taken a fee on the other side, however shall show him your letter which I hope will secure him for you, Mr. Gridley urg's this action was for the thing & had no connection with the other I am at present very much out of health & must beg leave to employ my brother in law Mr. Shrimpton Hutchinson to carry this affair thro whom I shall assist all that is in my power. I join with you in oponion that Mr. Derby must finally be answerable to you, but think you judge right in taking care of the defence of your interest against this attack made upon it, I am
Your most hum'l servant