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When we found you had let her to Carry wood
in Answer to which in our last by Whitley
of Augst 22^nd. We say the only expenses that Can
attend the Sloop Dove is her Wharfage wh[ich]
Cannot be very much You will be pleased to
let Us know What she has earnt at Carrying
of Wood and don’t Venture her to late in that
employment this Paragraph Considered don’t
appear as if we imagined she was to [run?]
the Winter if we had intended or expected any
Such thing we should have Insured our Interest
but we Cannot doubt but that you have
Considered these Circumstances as we depended
Intirely upon Your friendship.
          [Those] with Inclosed we send You
the Ordanance Bills for £50 Sterling. Majr Philipps’s
for 22-10. Jones Parsons Bill for £7. Chamberlyn
for £1-12-6 [crossed out: which we think will amount
to £100 this Currency or thereabouts ]* all which
we wish safe to Yr[your] hand and shall Remitt
You as past as in our Powers as to any
Business here at Present is a Poor Prospect
But shall be Able to say more on that head when
we Write You Concerning the wood Affair
but beg You will write Us by the Vessell