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should be able to make to you this year he should be able to retrieve his credit in your books. And we cannot imagine how this could have been effect'd in one year without this method which we have now taken.

We have also herewith sent you the following small bills of exchange which we desire you to negotiate as soon as you can [Viz.].

Emanuel Jones on Im Yeats for..£6....

James Allen on John Allen of Dumfried for }...17..18..

Alex. Scott on Johnstark for.... 5..2

Tho. Edwardson Foster Cunliffe Esq...7.17.3

Tho. Booth jun on Fo Berry....6....

Emanuel Jones on James Yeats Eliza. Burwells money}..36....

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78.17.3

We hope the friendship with which we begin our correspondence, will be an engagement or you to prosecute with vigour our affair with Messiurs Hide and Mr. James Bradley; We are with much respect,

Sir,

Your most humble servants
John Carter
Ch. Carter
Landon Carter

by Dove
Copy P Barnes

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Mr. John Stark
Rappahannock Aug. 30 1732

Sir,

Your several letters by the death of our Father are now before us his executors but as they, consist chiefly of arguments intended to vindicate your several practices in the trade, such as the charge of Cocmisions upon the whole duties of tobo. [tobacco] sold to export; the returning of broken accounts and the insisting on the three percent commissions upon your