I haue receaued a leter from you by mr. browne, conseringe a deet due vnto you of 62 pound: mr padey haue apounted me to pay vnto Daniell Coall of plemoueth 30 pound: before your leter came, and I haue payed him on thurd of it and the rest with as much speed as I can: and for the other 32 pound I desier you to forbear me in regard that mony is so carse, and the wine which I had of goodman luxford I had a hard bargaine of it I lost thre hoegsets of it by the resonn of rotinge Caske that it 296was in, therfore I desier you forbeare me I will god willinge macke you satisfaxtion in Corn or other commodytis by the springe or a litell after so in hast I rest

yow lately wrote a letter to my Father2 wherein yow intimate that yow have seene a sufficient letter of Atturny from the 2 sisters of John Alline to John Porter of Hingham to receive theyr brothers estate and to give a discharge. Now I was made Executor by his will in my Fathers absence, and the most of his estate lay in goods and land as the Inventory will declare, soe that I putting off the most of his goods, have received verry little mony, and soe bin forced to take it in worke or such like payment, and some depts are yet due, and those have nothing to pay but corne: there is only seaven pownds which my Father will take order to be forthwith payde in to yow, and for the remaynder I shall either send corne to be delivered at Boston at the price the market affords at springe, or else pay in any other goods I have as it shall be judged worth by indiffrent men, For mony is not to be gotten with vs for any goods we have. I shall desire to heare from yow how the Atturny accepts of this course of payment, and accordingly I shall address my selfe for performance, and with all deliver vp the accounte, dependinge on what yow wright for my discharge. thus forbearinge to be further troublsome at present I rest Your worships in all due respectiveness