Robert Carter writes London merchant Thomas Corbin concerning various problems, including tobacco sales, of the estate of Ralph Wormeley, for which he is one of several trustees. He reports that he is shipping 12 hogsheads of tobacco, and will ship more, all for the sale and benefit of the estate. He thanks Corbin for sending news, comments on the lamentable death of King William and expresses the hope that the nation will prosper under Queen Anne, especially in the fighting with France.

     Your Letters by Burford Lurthing , Trajan , Tayloe & the last of [them]
by Capt. Dove are Come to hand, In one of them you tell me
you sold the Tenn hogsheads of tobaccoe sent you per [Captain John] Gallon at 9[d]
and that you would in Due Time send me an Accot., But sin[ce I]
have seen no such Thing, for the Tobaccoe went out of
Yourk River to you, I never heard yett what became o[f it]
You tell me you had sent the Rings I had Writt for, I [had]
One of them from Colo Jenings , the Rest he hath [dis]
posed off. I know Wee have all an equall power in Re[gard]
of the Estate and in Regard there are soe many Concer[ned]
Could Wish I was fairly Discharg'd, having business enou[gh of]
my Own to Imploy my Thoughts upon, The Chiefest of t[he]
Trouble hath yett lain upon me, and while I Contin[ue]
to Intermedle in shipping the tobaccoes, Sending for [pro]
-vision any Goods wth. the &c.as I must Expect the [men]
I Correspond wth. send their Accots. and Invoices [that]
I may Discharge myself fairly, as farr as I shall [my]
self to the Children when they Come of Age, & they [ . . . ]
Desire, that the Tobo. I sent to you last year, and w[ould send]
hereafter to you wth. the necessarys I shall from ti[me to time]
Write for, may be still accountd. for to me
I must be so Free to say shall Decline any further [to concern]
myself wth. the Estate, or shall apply my self to over
take their Methods; I shall alwayes be most Ready [to account]
to the Rest of the Trustees of my proceedings, as I hope [they will]
do to me I have no Other Design
but the Service of the Children
wth:out the least appearance
of any profitt to myself
for all my Trouble,
and therefore have all
the Reason in the World to take Care not
to Intangle
my own Concerns The Tobacco that went to Mr. Lee & Mr. Mathews [sold?]
none under 09d3/4 The most at 10d some at 10d. 1/2.

     This Encloses a bill of Lading for Twelve hogsheads of Toba[ccoe be]
-longing to that Estate shipp'd on board the abram John [Street]
Commander bound for London , Consignd to you for sale to
the Accot. & risqe. of the Infant Exrs., Desire you will pa[y]
the Bill of Exa. I have Drawn for the Impost.

     Capt. Tayloe Arriv'd so late that Wee w[ere]
Suspicious of his Coming and Freight being very s[carce]
at One Time, I was glad to secure as much as I Co[uld]
for the Estate, and had shipt all the Tobo. made, be[fore]
the Corbin came in, All the Tobo. made in Yourk River th[is]
year will be Consign'd to you, Should be glad you will [let]
me know how the accots. Currtt. will Stand between you [and]
Esqr. Wormeleys Estate.

     I thank you for yor. kind Entertainmts. of News from Time to Time is
very satisfactory to Us, in this Melancholly Corner of the World
pray God make up our Loss in the Death of King William
the best of Princes & Best of Men, and Prosper Our Arms,
by sea and Land, That Wee may Retrieve the antient Glory
of the English Nation and that France may be soe lowerd
no longer to be the Dread of her Neighbours a Work I hope
Design'd by Heaven to a Grandize to posterity the Name
of Our Glorious Queen Ann, Little News hence but Wee hope
these Troubl'd Waters will Afford us a good price for Our tobaccoe
I am Sr.