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all future Letters on business shall be
addressed to Messrs Jordan & Barnes
I am Gentlemen Your
Humble Servant
Robert Carter

Virginia Willamsburg 23d July 1762 To
James Buchanan & Company London

Gentlemen

Your Letter inclosing an Account Current
Sales for 20 hogsheads Tobacco, Invoice & Bill of
Liding I have before me, The Goods sent
by the Virginia Planter for the Towns of Norfolk
& Hampton detain the Ship below: a Gentlemen
goes from hence for Hampton Tomorrow
early to put Letters on board some Ships,
there that are to sail on Sunday next
(by whom I forward this) I believe Captain
William Thompson will not join these
imprudent Gentlemen Sir Jeffery Amherst
& Captain Scafe assure the Governor by Letter
that his Majesty's Ship the Chesterfield
shall be here to Convoy the Trade of
Maryland & this Colony to Britain
Your