| (seq. 20)Boston 8th Aprille 1745.
Collo {Benjamin} Payton
Sir
This acknowledges the Receipt of your favour
{per} {Captain} Bacon 22d March. Have also rec'd your Hides & Skins & have just
disposed of them. have not as yet weighed the Hides, they wanting
considerable drying. they hold out as to the Number, the Skins have
weighed, but find wanting the weight you put them at in your
Letter by 19[?] & was oblidged to separate them in weighing. [?] of them
were very poor & would fetch but half price. the rest sold for 8/.
[?]. they would have fetch'd more sometime ago, but there is a great
Number in now, which has lower'd the price, but shall send you acctt
Sales of Hides & Skins together {per} {Captain} Bacon, whom I shall send in a
Vessell to {Mister} Guin. Herein you have inclosed Invoice & Bills Lading
for 1 {hogshead} [NE?] Rum & [?] Molasses & a Negro man named (Paris) {amount}
to
| (seq. 20)Boston 8th Aprille 1745.
Collo {Benjamin} Payton
Sir
This acknowledges the Receipt of your favour
{per} {Captain} Bacon 22d March. Have also rec'd your Hides & Skins & have just
disposed of them. have not as yet weighed the Hides, they wanting
considerable drying. they hold out as to the Number, the Skins have
weighed, but find wanting the weight you put them at in your
Letter by 19[?] & was oblidged to separate them in weighing. [?] of them
were very poor & would fetch but half price. the rest sold for 8/.
[?]. they would have fetch'd more sometime ago, but there is a great
Number in now, which has lower'd the price, but shall send you acctt
Sales of Hides |
EN