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Virginia, Williamsburg 10th May 1764
To Messrs: James Buchanan & Company London
Gentlemen:
Every Family here have small Farms;
which supplies them with Articles to be bought in good
Markets. Such a Custom must inevitably
bar every attempt towards improveing
Markets; I have purchaced a small set
tlement, (to comply with custom only) & for the
payment of which I have been constrained to
pass my Bills on you, the 20th of last month for
100£ Sterling: payable to Daniel Rundle, also
the 3d of this Instant for 130£ Sterling: payable to
Holden by Dixon, also the 7th of this Instant for
173£ 18s: Sterling:, payable to Tarpley & Thompson
amounting in the whole to 403£ 18s: Sterling: I did
examin your account previous to the 3 Drafts just
mentioned, & did not then believe you would
pay the whole amount of them, & immediately
advised Mrs Tasker of Annapolis, I had
passed Bill on your house, exceeding my Effects
there, & beged him to have such a part of them
paid, you shall protest. Captain William Thompson
has