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acceptable article to most Ships
Your Annual Ship is not to depend on
Me for any certain Quantity of Tobacco
Thus far I will venture to promise that
any business Your House shall submit
to my Attention shall be diligently
& punctually executed by Gentlemen

Your Humble Servant
Robert Carter.

To Mr John Morton Jordan Merchant
in London

Virginia Willamsburg 19th July 1762.

Sir

I beg leave to congratulate You upon
two Events namely Your late marriage,
also the connections with Mr Abraham
Barnes an adept by long experience in
many kinds of british Manufactures
the Americans require & has accumulated
riches by Prudence & Caution

Your Letter of the 27th April & Goods by the Triton
I have received & every Article of them are
proper, excepting the Mirrour, the size of
the