[Baltimore] 28 Octr
I wrote you the 2 Inst Via London. Since then none of your favours, tho the Schooner was arrived with you, & the Packet brought me a letter with that Acct2 You Cannot Imagine how I am in Want of Money, and you Should have let me known when I might have drawn on you for a little. at any rate I must do it in Decr in favr of [Robert] Lisle as I Expect there will be then 100 £ Sterl due him, & he writes Very pressing. the Servant Debts are Very Slow in Comeing in, which makes me be in more want than I would. I have now sent [James] Forde his Acct we are in his debt 1/7 Currency. Indeed I made a Mistake in my own Mind as I thought we owed him the Amt of the Salt I have not Recd that money yet, but do now Expect it in a few days. as there are little business a doing I think to retail Wett Goods. if I find We Cannot do Enough, and trouble likely to Continue long. I think to buy some land & Quit business. the first Shall do Immediately, the Second wait Your & G[eorge] D[arley] advice ー Very little wheat Comes in price 3/ a 4/ flour 12/ Ex[change] 66⅔. now would be the time to purchase ー I have wrote none but ford. this goes by the Packet no other opportunity till Decr when a brig to Galway will sail in ballast. Shall write by her & would be glad to hear from you
1. Woolsey & Salmon Letter Book, LC.
2. The schooner Industry. For account, see Woolsey to Skinner, June 8, and Woolsey to Darley, June 29, 1775, Volume 1, 634, 779-780.