[Baltimore] the 28 Janr 1775
[Extract]
. . . we now Inclose you bill of Loading. and Invoice for what we Shipped for yr Accts on board the Brig Hope2 Amt one thousand and thirty two pounds 4s 2d Currency. to your Debit we also inclose you Disbursements on the Vessel Amt to your Debt One Hundred & Sixteen pounds 6s 6d Currency. and Likewise your Acct Courent. . . . We hope our Behaviour in the present business will Institute us to a Continuance of your friendship. and be Assur'd we done all in our Power for your Interist. And took every Method in our power to give your Vessel dispatch, and we must say that Capt [George] Robinson give us all the Assistance in his power. for which we are thankful. as we are Sensible that Many Masters would have Detained the Vessel much longer that he has been here merely by the difference of the Assistance he gave as to perhaps what the[y] would have done at this Season . . . .
We find the best Seasons for Purchasing Wheat is October & November & the beginning of Decemr pritty good for both wheat & Flour. And April & May is the two best Months to Sell Servants & next to them June, October & the Beginning of November for the Sale of Servants. these Circumstances we mention in Case you find it hereafter to your Advantage to do business this way.
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.
2. The Hope cleared on January 21, for Dublin, with a cargo of 200 hogsheads of flaxseed, 100 barrels of wheat meal, 100 barrels of rye meal, 1300 bushels of wheat, 300 barrels of flour, 100 barrels of bread, eight casks of beeswax, and 5000 staves and headings, Md. Port of Entry Books, 1745-1775, MdHS.