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administration of my farthers estate.
What ever information & advice on these
heads you shall be pleased to impart to me
will be taken as kindly as your last affectionate
letter I am &cc
Robert Carter
Willamsburg 29th March 1764
To Mr Francis Willis junior at mount plesant
in Gloucester County
Sir
At the last conference I had with Mr Benjamin Waller
concerning your claim against me, I found you
had instructed him to demand in right of
your wife a third part of two thirds of the
appraised value of my fathers slaves & a
childs part of his personal estate. I did
not deny her title to those proportions, if
the intestates debts did not exceed the value
of them, and, if it should turn out so upon
a