Dear Sr

Your favors 30. June ー & 12 July pr the Peggy. I duly recd  I forbear complaining of my hard fate in this affair, I nevertheless am much Indebted for your kind intention to serve me  a line from me which Mr Lostaw undertook to have conveyed to you notes the manner of adjusting the Peggys Freight as compromised wth him which I hope you will sepperate from the order for the Cargo. ー your Disbursments for the Peggy. £17.8. is to your Credit, the Beef furnished the Rose is Included in her present Vouchers which has been in the Pursers hands this 14 days for signing  have wrote him twice with the adition of Messages to which are not favourd with any answer why they are not executed or signed  my accos are closed to 15. July except this Vouchr to compleat them  Ballance in my favor upwards of £600 Lawfull money ー a Vessel from this in 15 or 20 days for London affords me a conveyance by whom will forward the first Vouchers of each sett for lboth Ships the 2d shall be handed you with my Accounts pr. the first Vessell for Boston after I am in Possession of them ー the Impracticability of Negotiating Bills here in a Short time, the Total Stop of Trade in September ー with every Resourse for obtaining Provisions from the Neighbouring Colonies being cut off it puts it out of my Power to Support the Contract any longer for want of money &c &c ー I therefore must request you will asoon as Possible fall upon some expedient to Exonerate Me from the Discharge of the Same ー Shoud our next news from London carry with it the apearance of no Accomodation bills coud not be negotiated here for any Discot  nay am Doubtfull if coud raise money on them now a[t] 10 PCt ー & most People of money woud quit the town ー as many have ー conveyances are very uncertain  Altho I cannot obtain the Roses Vouchers from Lewis² ー I thought it best to forward my acct as I closed them with that Voucher Includd therein ー also the Swans first Vouchers finished ー & must depend upon Conveying the Roses when obtain them the account of which you have Inclosed ー with my account Currt ballance in my favor £606.5.3 which please to confirm in your next with bills for the Ballance ー & acct. Exchange  I may have a few hundred Stg. in money to Spare  If I coud place in Secure hands in England with a small Interest 'till our Troubles end should be glad of bills for it at 10 PCt which I suppose can be had of Mr. loyd ー our part says 15 PCt  of this please to advise me where to place it, Merchts having large sums due from this Country must stop ー for want of remittance ー therefore unsafe ー the 15000 Bread noted in my former letter has been since drawn for a 15/, Stg PC ー I am Dr Sir [&c.]

[Endorsed] Copy Letter To A Brymer August 1st 1775