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Price Currtt. Flour £5 @ £5.5/ Wheat 32/6 @ 34/ Corn 18/ @ 21/, Rye 22/6
Ship Bread £4.10/ Middlings 75/ @ 80/, Pork £18. Beef £15, White Beans the last
30/, B. Sugar £10 @ £17, Powder do. £14 @ £20, Loaf Sugar 6/6, Pigg Iron £65,
Molasses 9/, N. E. Rum 11/ @ 11/6, W. I do. 18/, Cotton wool 15/, Cocoa about £33
Coffee 5/3. French Indigo 55/, Jamaica Fish £4.15/. Mackrell £8.7/ @ £9.2/

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Boston Augt. 22d. 1765.

Mr. John Freare

Sir

The foregoing is Copy of my last {per} Somes, since which
I am favourd with yours of 6th. Currtt. [??] a Letter for Mr. Henry White which have
forwarded {per} this days post, also 2d. & 3d. Bills of your drafts No. 95 & 96 and the 1st.
of No. 102 dated 6th. Inst my favr. for £100 Sterling on John Biggin & Anthony
Bacon Esqrs. Sold at par, for which your Agent Victualling Accott. stands Creditted
£133.6.8 Lawful Money.

Inclos'd herein you have Bill Lading & Invoice of 12 fatt Bullocks {per}
Sloop Swallow, Nathaniel Attwood master amounting to £117.15.1 Charg'd to
your Agent Victualling Accott. which wish safe to hand, they turn out higher then
I expected, but the next Mr. Bryant has engag'd to lay in at 18d. Old Tenor {per} [??]
& thinks they will be under that soon, I am

Your most huml. Servt.

P. S. I shall Ship 10 or 12 more Cattle {per} Capt. Ezekiel
Hatch if his Vessell be suitable, he talks of sailing
in 10 or 12 days

[{per} Capt. Attwood]

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Boston Augt. 26th. 1765

Mr. William Hanschurst

I duly rec'd your favr. of 29th. ulto. & note what you
say about Creditting your Anchors & Pigg Iron. I am endeavouring to get Some
Samples of Anchors from Marblehead & Cape Ann, & doubt not if you
can make Anchors to suit them you will have a considerable run here,
I have Sold all the largest Anchors, if you can supply a parcell from 6 [?]
to 10 [?] doubt not they would Sell in a Short time. 13 Anchors & 1 Ton
of Pigg Iron is Sold. I have remitted Mr. David Vanhorne more then
the Neat proceeds of them, having sent him a Bill for £6.14.2 Sterling,
another for £25 New York Curry. also £75 in your Bills of Credits, please
to inquire of Mr. Vanhorn whether he has recd. those remittances & whether the
Bills

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