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to £207..5..10 sterling: the proceeds of 5 hogsheads of
Tobacco is your only discount to be made from that sum
the remaining balance shall be remitted to you upon
collecting (a sufficiency for that purpose) the debts
due to the estate of Mrs P.L. deceased. You recom
mend two modes for discharging this debt, &
you say either of them will be satisfactory: the 1st is
a consignment of the yearly crop of Tobacco made
on that estate, or 2ly an order on my corres
pondent in London, but neither of which can
be complyed with. as to the first the Lands &
slaves my mother possessed, was only held
in right of dower, & on her death that estate
descended to her husbands representatives;
to the 2d my effects in europe are not equal
to my debts there. The security for your debt against
my mothers estate are bonds & open accounts
amounting in the whole to about 3,500£ Virginia
currency, the british claims sent in to me
make in the whole 260£ Sterling, the county cla[i]ms
make in the whole 100£ currency