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& a small Account transmitted to you
amounting to £2142//5//7. which are applied
to discharge Byrd's Draft on L, McLean
& Damages thereon also part of the Judgment
against John Page & Peyton Randolph

I hope that the matter in question is explain
able from these Papers & the General Account
I sent to Mr Daniel Dulany so that I shall
only add here that I am
Dear Madam
your affectionate son
& humble servant
Robert Carter

To
Mrs Tasker
at Annapolis

1769
August 17 Sir,

It is said that you advised Mrs Ogle last
month that she had then 12 tons of Bar Iron
& 20 of pig at the Baltimore Iron Works
Mrs Lownds & my Wife claim an equal
portion with Mrs Ogle of that 5 part of the
Baltimore Iron Works their father died possessed off.
Be pleased to inform me if there were
36 tons of bar Iron & 60 of pig when you
wrote to Mrs Ogle & whether I may draw
on you for 12 tons of bar Iron & 20 of pig,
in right of my Wife only.

are bar & pig Iron salable at the Works,
& what are they worth?

What was Indian corn worth when William Horton
delivered 800 bushells at the Works by
my order & how was it applyed?
Pray send to me a Copy from the Books of
the Baltimore Company Mrs Tasker's Profits, from
the 30th day of December 1767 to the 30th of
December following. I am, &cca
Robert Carter

To Clement Brooks, manager
at the Baltimore Works