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Gentlemen  I Recieved your 13th p Capt Chappel also of the 18th by post came to hand. I have now by the Sloop Macaroni, Shipt a Cargo of Melasses wich is very Good hope you'l git 2s for it. You must certainly send me Two hundred half Joaneses and Fifty barrels, of Super Fine Flower att least. I shall send the Sloop to the West Indias as Soon as she Returns, & beg you'l dispatch her as Soon as you Can. . . . I wrote you by the Post that I had sum Good Sugar & Coffee wich I will send down when you think thay Can come Safe what Premium must I pay on the Macaroni Against the Danger of the Seas & Seizures from this to the West Indias with Liberty to go to Severall Ports until we Can git our Cargoe. . . . I am Gentlemen

P.S. send me two Pieces of Ticklinburg. have sent 35 Hhds Melasses