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Annexed you have a Coppy of what we wrote you the 7th Inst since then (we have the pleasure to Inform you) our River Still has kept so free of Ice that Ships may Depart and we flatter our Selves that we will be able to get your Brig² Away in Eight Days from this as we only wait for a little wheat in the After hold to be able to Complete her load there is now on board one hundred & Sixty Hhds Seed, and about four hundred Barrells Nearly and we are in hop[e]s the Wheat will be on board all in three days. and we are Realy happy in the thought in getting her away before the River is Stoped. We have Shipped on board for your Acct fifty Hhds Seed of Wheat or perhaps more if the room will hold it. as the Roads are Excessive Bad and little wheat to be got but out of Craft we have been obliged to give 7/3 for what we ship in the brig Indeed we would not have given so much had not the Season of the year Been Precarious, and we have got it of the best Quality. the price in General from 7/ to 7/3 as in Quallity Scarce [flour] from 17/ a 18/3 flaxseed also scarce from 13/6 to 14/  yours will cost 13/8 . . . but have been obliged to give 14/ for the most of What is in your Brig. we learn from N Y that the[y] Ship 17000 Hhds there  10000 [at] Philada and we think we will Ship about 1500 here. from which Circumstances we Judge you will have as Much this Season as you had last. We shall write you soon.