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Price Currtt. Flour £5. @ £5.5/, Ship Bread £4.10/, Wheat 32/6, Rye 22/6
@ 25/, Corn 18/, Pork £18 @ £24. Beef £15 @ £18, Barr Iron £180, Pigg do. £65
best Muscovado Sugar £15 @ £16.10/, Ordinary do. no Sale. Powder do. £41 @ £20
Loaf do. 6/6. Molasses 9/, N. E. Rum 11/, W. I. do. 18/, F. Indigo 50/ @ 55/,
Cotton 15/ @ 15/6, Coffee 5/3 @ 5/6, Cocoa £33. Bohea Tea 36 @ 37/6. Duty 2/6
Jamaica Fish price not broke, may be £4.10/ @ £4.15/. Mackrell do. maybe £7.10/
Exchange at par. Sale about £3.15/{per} that of 8 Bushells.

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Boston Augt. 8th. 1765

Messrs. Willing & Morris

Gentn.

This serves to advise you that I have drawn on you
of this date favr. David Beveridge for £16.14.10 Philadelphia Curr. j equal to
£13.7. 10/4 L m. j being for the Ballance due to me as {per} Accott. below. have
nothing further to add but the offer of my best servises on all occasions & am
P. C. as to Messrs. Robinson & Reynolds of this

Your most humble Servt.

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Boston Augt. 8th. 1765

Capt. William Richards

I have this day drawn on you in favr. David Beveridge
at ten days Sight for £28.4.10 Philadelphia Curry. equal to £22.1.10/4 Lmo.
which doubt not youl duly honor, the Bill is for something more then the amount
of Model of [?] Light House & the Fish sent you last year, but as there is no prospect
of ever getting anything of Moses Boynton, when that debt is Charg'd to your
Accott. you will be in my Debt £27.15.6 exclusive of the above Bill. I
having advanc'd the amount of that outstanding Debt for you, I am sorry
I have been so unfortunate as not to be able to recover anything from
Boynton, can assure you I have done all in my power for you. I am

Your most huml. Servt.

P. C. as {per} Letter to Messrs. Robinson & Reynolds of this date

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