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There are Great Demand for fancy maid I do
believe that a likely Girl and a Good seamstress
could be sold for $1000 I was disappointed in
not finding your Charlottsville maid that you
promised me you must ship all the first
rate house servants the first by the first shipment
after you receive this you say you have
Rd nothing since the negroes started Jas says
he has written to you every time he wrote
to Armfield & [Puroes?] for my own part I have
wrote but little since I left I will have this place
first N Orleans the first boat from which [?]
I will forward you Twenty thousand dollars [and?]
I Armfield thirty thousand a few days since
I forwarded you near five thousand dollars
which has been raised principally from the
Discount of F & A old paper you know
we could have sold little for cash [Jany?] is the
almost the Shortest payment we get
as usual
Isaac Franklin