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Willamsburg 10th february:1764
To Colonel Landon Carter of Sabine Hall in Richmond
County, & to Colonel Charles Carter of Cleve in King
george County with some few alterations.
Dear Sir
In obedience to a precept of yorks Court
I attended their worships the 3d Monday in the
month of September last to answer a bill in chancery
filed there by the direction of Mr. Francis Willis Jr
of gloucester County & Elizabeth his wife. Mr
Waller attorney for the plantifs proposed at that time
to refer the claim in the bill to arbitrators to settle
I agreed to the same. upon returning here from the
province of Georgia I had a conference with
Mr Waller upon the subject of the mentioned bill;
but the event of it was not conclusive. The
petition of the bill is to compel me to pay 1700£
sterling with interest therein from the marriage of
the orators, they set forth that colonel charles Carter
has made two payments amounting in the
whole to 465£ sterling part of the said 1700£
ster