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I have Some thoughts of being Concernd in 2 Private[e]rs thats now fixing out of Boston, to Cruize after the Jama Ships, bound for London ー One is Abt 80 Tons & the Other About fourty, to be well fixd & to go in Comps as One ー Colo Sergants is 1/8th Concernd in the whole, & their is 1/16th not taken up yet, & the Concernd have a mind I Should take it, Our Leiut Colo [(]Jackson[)]
² has a mind to be 1/3d Part ー Please to write me whether you have A mind to be Concer[n]d or not, I Shall Conclude before I Can hear from you [but] if I Should be Concernd you may be Equally Coned w[ith] me, or I will take it all to myself. I Should Like to have had your Advice in the Affair if it was So that I Could ー the two vessels whole Outsets will be About Two thousand Pounds Lw Money-we have Nothing New this way, trade grows dull, but I believe Shall get rid of Our goods with a good Profit ー I am Sir [&c.]