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Inclosed you have Acct Sales for yr 8 hhds Tobo recd P the Friendship, Roman nt procds £66.14.10 to yr credt which from their goodness will I hope induce you to continue yr favrs to me. The sales shd have been sent some time ago had there been any convenient oppy. The price of Tobo here has risen very considerably within this month or six weeks, so that what comes home this year will come to a...
Date: 15 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I yesterday recd yr esteem'd favor of the 9th Currt & am much obliged for yr information of the prices of Tobo with you, which are by no means equal to the price here, so that a consignmt of that article to yr market at this time must bring a great loss. From the political prospects of Affairs in Europe & America Tobo must rise still higher. You have inclosed Mr John Finch's Excha on...
Date: 16 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am greatly obliged by yr sevl favrs of Jany 30 Feby 13 Mar 7 & Aprl 13 ー The loss at Stratford is what we must all feel, especially at such times as these, when it would be indelible infamy to ask any favor of such wicked Ministers as rule this Country. A Spanish War is greatly talked of & in my opinion will take place as soon as a blow is struck in America ー will you think me prudent...
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you P last Post to which be pleased to refer, & now inclose you Mr Edwd Linde's order on Mr John Christian Wegener for 2 hhds manufactd Tobo weigng 1084 lbs nt which were shipd to him in Feby last P the Hambro' Commerce, Otto Paul Moller, Master & if they are sold for nt procds of the same. Shou'd the Tobo be deld to you, please to dispose thereof to the best advantage & remit...
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
As I have no business to write on to you, still I may give you a line to repose on in a hot afternoon in yr cool passage. The Magazine & Papers in closed will furnish some amusement & if you want any more of the Political kind my Br F. L. Lee will furnish you with as much as I know. Taking it for granted that you will send me at least 40 hhds of Tobo this year & besides by yr...
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Inclosed you have Accts Sales for yr 6 hhds Tobo recd P the Friendship Roman nt procds £47.1.2 to yr credt, also Sales for 8 hhds of Colo Geo. Lees Estate nt prods £56.4.4 to credt of sd: Este & sales for 4 hhds of our late Brs nt procds £32.17. to his credt These Sales are good ー indeed few of the Shippers in Roman can complain, as his Cargoe averages £7 P hhd, which I fancy hardly any will...
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having little business to write about have chiefly to enquire after your Health & that of yr good Family. The Mags & papers inclosed will give you the political intelligence which cannot be pleasing as our Ministers still continue obdurate agst America & every day expect to hear of an engagem[en]tt in Mass. Bay as they have long ago sent orders to Genl [Thomas] Gage to go to Blows...
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have not recd a letter from you but that from Lawsons Bay. I hope you are not unmindful of the main chance, vizt providing for the dispatch of Brown & Norwood & getting remittances, had you struck for 500 or 100 hhds of Tobo when you first arrived it wd have been lucky at the Aprl price of 25/. I fear a loss, unless no Tobo is made this summer. Romans sales are all sent, his cargoe...
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I thank you for yr Lre from Richmond Town which is the only one I recd since Brown arrived. For Heavens sake take care of Brown & Norwood & get them loaded & get what remittances made that you can before the Flame burst out which we expect to hear of every day from N. Engd. The Papers &c sent herewith will show you our sentiments here. The parcel of prints & history of...
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday I had the Honor of being chosen Alderman for one of the most respectable Wards in the City of London. This post is for Life, Honorable, & attended wth very little expence. The paper will shew you the rest. The Scotch we understand are buying up all the Tobo in the Country, surely no one will trust them without the Cash, for their bills are dangerous ー Let them get yr property into...
Date: 24 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Capt Montgomery to Poto[mac] the 24 Ulto I wrote you largely, & sent a large number of papers, pamphlets &c ー & by this oppty send you another packet besides this Letter. I have little to say on business, having recd only one Letter from you since the Adventure arrived & a short one of Mr [Edward] Browne of March 14 ー Since advice of the engagement in Massachusetts Bay on the...
Date: 5 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 25 of Aprl wch is my 3rd Letter in the course of this year, to all wch be pleased to refer. The other day I recd yr favr of Mar 30 from Norfolk & tho' I recd a Letter from Capt Brown of 10 days later date he does not mention one word of having any of yr Tobo, nor has my Br wrote me of having recd the 10 hhds from Hipkins, if he does in time they shall be insured as you direct...
Date: 8 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I duely recd yr esteemd favor of the 30 Ulto and am sorry for having given you so much fruitless trouble with the order on Mr Wegener. I have before me Messrs Burrowes & Sons Acct Sales for Mr John Finchs Tobo nt procds Bank P 438.6 which suppose they will have no objection to pay in part of Mr Finchs Bill on them, when it becomes due, deducting if they think proper intst for the time, as...
Date: 9 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The other day I recd a Letter from my Nephew inclosing the last years Accts amt £45.11.3 & advising of yr dft: for said Sum to Mr Saml Potter which shall be duely honor'd when it appears. I am almost ashamed to give you so much trouble abt my Nephews already, but my Br has particularly desired that duplicates of the Bills with rects to them may be sent him every year which I must beg the...
Date: 12 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have before me yr two favrs of 9 & 16 Inst the Contents of which I duely observe. You have now some Franks to inclose my Nephews Acct have no doubt my Br will think them reasonable, as I suppose the whole years expences is included in your dft. indeed we can scarcely be too frugal in these critical times. The perilous situation of American affairs, keeps most things at a stand particularly...
Date: 24 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I only recd yr oblig: favor of the 1st Inst on the 6th & note its contents. A Duplicate of yr Occot: agst my Nephews shall be sent to my Br as soon as an oppty offers which may not be these 9 or 12 Mos, therefore if any quicker conveyance to the Virga side of Poto[mac] or Rap[hannoc]k shd happen from yr Port, it will be esteemed very obligd: in you to forward a duplicate yourself. The dft: to...
Date: 8 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Capn [Nathaniel] Falconer delivered me safely your favour of May the 10 from Phila ー The insurances you ordered are made. The uncertainty of this reaching you at Philadelphia, or indeed at all, will prevent me from being so full as I shd otherwise be. Our Br A[rthur] has wrote I believe pretty largely. Notwithstanding the base & wicked attempts of our Ministry & Genl. [Thomas] Gage to...
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have before me yr favr of May 6 & June 3d ー none of my Lrs from Virga mention yr having any Tobo on board the Adventure therefore none is insured. The Underwriters that stand out will not settle without a law Suit wch shall be commenced as soon as Mr Browne returns, as he is a material witness; I do not therefore send yr Acct Currt the Ball: of wch is in yr favr but very trifling; if your...
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
'Tis a lamentable circumstance that a set of miscreant ministers shd have forced us into a Civil War; but as they have begun, I hope the Amerins. will remember the advice of Polonius to his Son Laertes in Hamlet "Beware of entrance into a quarrel, butt being in, bear it that the opposer may beware of thee." Capt [Nathaniel] Falconer has all the Public News which is not very material, as this is a...
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have just recd yr favor of May 20 & am greatly obliged by yr consignmt P the Adventure. In consequence of orders from my Br. R H Lee I had insured for you £1000 in the Adventure but on rect. of yrs. £145 more was added makg. in the whole £1145 wch. in case of loss will cover abt. £1100 nett, Unless yr Tobo is of a very good quality I cannot flatter you with the prospect of gaining as much...
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1