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please to inform whether any Charge has arisen & what it is that I may discharge
it the lowest premium askt on your Brigg is 7 {percent} the Voyage round if
sells to return 3 {percent}. I am

Your most huml. Servant

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Boston Augt. 5th. 1765

Mr. Lawrence Reade

Sir

As the request of Mr. Jordan I have made what inquirey
I could of the Demand & price of English Malt here, find the Consumption
small, a few hundred Bushells might be Sold at 2/3 @ 2/6 Sterling {per} Bushl.
if good, but no one would purchase without having Samples, & to warrant as
good as the Samples, I am

Your most humbl. Servant

P. Currtt. in Sterling B. Sugar 20/ @ 34/
Flour . . . . . 11/ Powder do. . . 26/ @ 40/
Wheat . . . 3/3 Cocoa . . . 66/
Corn . . . . . 2/3 Cotton . . . . 1/6 Mackrel 18/3
Rye . . . . . 2/3 @ 2/6 Coffee . . 6[?] @ 6[?]/2 Exchange at par
Pork . . 36/ @ [4/9] 4/9/6 F. Indigo 5/ @ 5/6
Beef . . 36/ Jamaica Fish (uncertain) may be 9/6 @ 9/1

[{per} post]

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Boston Augt. 6th. 1765

Mr. Thomas Rutland

Sir

I wrote you 17th. June last giving you an Accott. of
your Son Mr. Edmund Rutlands Decease, also the 17th. & 18th. July, that of 17th.
covering my Acctt. with his Estate, as also Bill Lading for his Wearing Apparel
Money &c {per} Capt. Dunlop who saild the 18th. [Inst] ulto., all of them I
doubt not have got safe to hand before this & to which refer. Capt Pitt arriv'd
here last Saturday Evening from Quebeck in Ballast, & proceeds directly for
Baltimore in Consequence of your Sons orders left with Mr. John Savage
a few minutes before his Death & just after I took my leave of him; I
shall at all times be ready to render you any service in my power. I am

Your most huml. Servant

[{per} Capt. Pitt]