[New York] Dec. 11, 1774
Per Captain Couper.
I have now before me your several Favors of the 27th August. 23rd of September and 14th of October last. And Note their contents. The first acknowledging the Receipt of a Remittance from Captain John Walker at Barcelona for £400 Stg. one half on Account of my Brother Gerard and the other half on my own account. for which have made you Debtor, and have given you Credit for £52.6.11 Amount of a Bale Merchandize you shiped me per Captain Couper as per Invoice. that of 14th October inclosing my account current with Messrs. Fluyder Marsh and Hudson ballance in my favour £82.1.4 which I have examined and found correct and have past the same to the Debit of your account. I should have sent you a Spring order, had we not been prevented by the unhappy misunderstanding that at present Subsists between Great Brittain and the Colonies, which has brought us under the disagreeable necessity of entring into a Non Importation agreement, untill proper redress of American Greivances is obtained, which [I am] in hopes of speedily acquiring.
1. Philip L. White, ed., The Beekman Mercantile Papers, 1746-1799 (New York, 1956), II, 755. Hereafter cited as White, ed., Beekman Papers.
