Boston 6. Octo. 1762 Sir,

I wrote you fully upon the Breeches you were to have of Allen to which Letter I refer you as I imagine you must have rec'd it e'er this. Mr: Fleet having sent it as he informs me some Time last Week.

I send you by Mr. Adams.

2 yds very good Cotton Velvett @ £6.7.6	£12.15—
8 mohair Butts.	" 2. 8
Horn ditto as I think they are best for the Hips & Waistband	" 1. 3
Twist	" 8—
	£13. 6.11

Mr. Willard having taken from me the mony he deliverd. me (as I wrote you) I have only in my Hands the Difference betwixt £35.5/ & £13.6.11 which is £21.18.1 or £2.18.5 L mo. and therefore am unable to pay Mr. Parker, but as I suppose you will chuse to make up the Sum due to him I have not returnd the Balle. but retain both the money & Letter till I have the pleasure of recieving your further Orders.

Mr. Phillips, Deacon Marsh & Mr. Green are to be married this Week. Ned Walker has been married abt. 3 Weeks.1

I am Sir Your obliged humble Servt.

SAM ELIOT

P.S. I have just had returned to me & inclose the Letter I wrote last Week, which Mr. Fleet told me he had forwarded.

RC ; addressed: "To Mr. Robert Treat Paine Attorney at Taunton. p. Favour of Mr. Adams"; endorsed.

1.

Deacon Marsh has not been identified. All the other marriages took place at the Brattle Square Church. John Phillips (1715–1787), captain of the garrison at Castle William in Boston Harbor, married Mary Winthrop on Oct. 28 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 10:60–66); Joshua Green (1731–1806), a Boston238 merchant and Harvard classmate of RTP, married Hannah Storer on Oct. 7 (ibid., 12:380–381); and Edward Walker (1739–1801), a Boston merchant later (1787) admitted to the Suffolk bar, married Abigail Lovell on Sept. 10 (ibid., 14:233–234).