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and about three months since I purchased a Quantity of much the same Quality as yours from Uriah Woolman, a Merchant of Philadelphia, at 20 Dollars. since then I have been offerd to be imported from the same City, any Quantity I liked at 18 Dollars.

The 4 Kegs of Cordials your Brother sent me I have sold to some of [my] Country Friends for the great Price of £26.17, this Currency, to pay which I have sent by Capt. Earl, Sixteen Dollars, which with 17/ I paid for Freight and Wharfage is the Amount. I should not have been able to obtain so large a Price but bye Connections in the Country and selling them for a long Credit; I am very sorry to be oblig'd to inform you that I cannot undertake a Commission Trade. You well know my incapacity, and haveing no Clerk to keep my Accounts, I must therefore decline it; but I shall in the propper Season for Cordials, send for a sufficient Quantity of Anniseed as will answer mine and my Friends purpose. in the mean time please to inform me how he will sell the same per Gallon.

I should have sent you Rice for the Cost of the Wine being 238 dollars, but its now at 60/, and by the Account I have it can be bought for less with you. I have therefore deferd it, hoping that in a short time it may fall in the Price, when I shall execute your order but if that does not happen, I will send you dollars or Johannes's which will be most agreable.

I thank God that my Family is well and particularly that my Daughter Hester is restored to a good State of Health. You will please to make all our kindest Salutations acceptable to your Lady and every Branch of your worthy Family, and believe me to be very Sincerely, My Dear Sir, Your Oblige Friend and Very Humble Servant,

thua Man

[Endorsed,] Per favor of Capt. Earl.

Sir,

HAYLEY AND HOPKINS TO CHRISTOPHER Champlin

[London,] 10 February, 1773.

WE confirm the above Copy of our last respects and have now to acknowledge receipt of your favours of the 4th and 10th September; 22d October, 5th, 21st and 26th November and 3d December with the following bills —

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of which the 10 Setts marked N are noted for Non acceptance and we fear will be returned with protests which will be a great disappointment to you as well as to us, but cannot be helped. You may depend upon our taking care to forward the needful protests without delay on such as are not paid when due. The other 5 Setts are accepted and when paid shall be placed to your credit.

We are obliged to you for recifying our omission of not charging the Morocca Shoes, they were I doz. 12/, I doz. 15/, [and] 1/2 doz. 22/ 11. in all £1.18. for which we now debit you. We are glad to see you had so good a prospect of recovering the money for the protested bill of £100 on Allen and Marlar. We now enclose you the other bill on the same House for £192.05.-with protest which hope you will be no Looser by, the cost of this protest being 5/9 is to your debit. We have applied to Captain Shand for

the ps. of Silk, but he informs us he undertook to gett it done himself and that he shall do so and bring it back to you. The premium for insuring a Vessell from Rhode Island to Jamaica and London warranted to sail from Jamaica on or before the 26th July is £6 per Ct.

The Goods you desire are getting ready and we propose sending them in Shand, who we expect will leave London in about 10 days or a fortnight. The Boston Ships will none of them sail a Week before him, so that your Goods will arrive this Spring in pretty good season.

We now enclose your Account Current to the 31st December last, ballance then in our favour being £3805.16.9 is carried to Your debit in new Account which if upon examination found free from Error please note accordingly of which shall be obliged by your informing us in your next. We are very respectfully, Sir, Your most Humble Servants HAYLEY & HOPKINS

Endorsed, Per Capt. Cartwright, via Boston.

STEVENSON AND WENT TO CHRISTOPHER AND

GEORGE CHAMPLIN

Barbados, Feb. 16th, 1773.

Gentlemen,

We have the pleasure to inform you that Captain Tuell

in your Sloop Adventure arrived here the 14th Instant from the Coast with 94 Slaves, and as our demand keeps up we took of two purchasers to view them, and finding them healthy and in good order we obtained £35 Sterling a head, round, which we think a very good price and hope it will give you satisfaction. We shall dispatch Captain Tuell in the course of six weeks with our own bills agreeable to your desire. We are with respect, Gentlemen, Your most hum. Servants,

STEVENSON AND WENT

Gentillmen,

SAMUEL TUELL TO CHRISTOPHER AND

GEORGE CHAMPLIN

Bridgetown in Barbados, February 22th, 1773

THIS comes to inform you, of my arivel heare the 13th of this month with 94 Slaves on board, all well and in good order, which I have sold, the hole of them, all round to Messrs. Stevenson and Went, the 16th of this inst. for 35 pound Starling, and am to be despatcht in six weeks, from the time sot. I ask'd 36 pound round for them, but I found after standing out two or three days, that I cood not obtain no more then 35£, and then I struck, according to your orders, which I hope will be agreable to you. I had seaven weeks passage wanting one day. I purchest in all 95 Slaves. I lost one before I left the Coast, so that I have sold 81 Cargo. I rote you two or three lines the 16th of this instant by the way of Boston which this comes the same way. Gentill Men, with Esteem your Most Obedient Humble Sarvent,

SAMUEL TUELL

[Endorsement,] Boston April 5th 1773. Rec'd and forwarded by Sirs Your humble Servants,

THOMAS STODDARD & Co.

CULLEN POLLOK TO AARON Lopez

Dearest Friend,

Edenton, March 9, 1773.

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It is now some time since I rec'd your most welcome favours. the two Vessels are both in the bay waitin a wind. Captain has good success in collecting and am in hopes will continue to have. I wish it had suited to send for the plank as it was already. I'm much obliged to you for your kind concern for my disappointment at York indeed it was vexatious but I have long learnt to laugh at such things. if the Captain had done as he might he would have taken the wheat on board, but Providence has wisely ordained that

[no] Situation in this world shall be without its Alloy, much less a poor Carolina Planter.

I have lately been informed by a line from Mr. Chaloner that one of my causes at S. Kingston was tryed, and that judgment had gone against me, but that Mr Marchant said my cause was good and had renewed the Sute, but does not say what they had done in the other, nor what sum they had recovered. I have wrote to him to write to me more particularly and to Mr. Marchant desiring him to write me also and shall esteem it a favour if you will put them in mind of it. . . .

my absence from home two Sumers, with the death of my Steward, and the loss of a most particular Friend, by a fall from his Horse, which fractured his skull, and dyed two days before I came home, he was a Gentleman of the Law possesed of every Virtue, and of a Liberal Education. he was the only one of that Profession, that ever I knew, whose accquaintance with the most vilinous part of Mankind had not deprived of the feelings of humanity, for the better part, and whose sentiments were as delicate as possible. within these few days, the loss of my oldest acquaintance in the Province, and most intimate Friend and Relation, a Man for every Virtue inferiour to none, that if it was not for my only comfort, and some few Friends (tho none in this Province) I should hold this World very cheap; all these things I am afraid will confine me at home this year, tho you may depend on seeing me next very early, by the permission the Almighty God. All these thing are sent by Providence to wean us of our two great fondness, for this World by the time we are to leave it, and ought to be looked on as favours from Heaven. but why should I trouble my dearest Friend, because I know his unbounded goodness will excuse it. Everything you was so kind to send by Captain Riply came safe to hand for which I return. you many thanks. I shall take it as a favour if you will inform me what I can get a good House Carpenter to come here for by the Month one who understands weather boarding in the manner of Mr. Brindlys or Mr. Dudys House.

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