Robert Carter responds to a letter from the London merchants, Jonathan Mathews and John Goodwin, noting that the sales of the Wormeley estate tobacco were acceptable, and that he is sending 11 hogsheads more of good tobacco. He encloses an invoice for goods for the Wormeley family including some items not strictly necessary, arguing that the estate should assist in paying for the widow's expenses. He states that one-fifth of the previous year's tobacco belongs to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Wormeley, the widow, who will ship her share to Mathews and Goodwin herself in the future.

     I Received your Letters Invoice &c. Relating to Esqr. Wormeleys es
-tate, but the Goods you know which Way the [y] went, We ha [ve]
bin hard put to it, to get Necessarys for the familys,T [he]
sale of the Tobacco as you promised it, We Cannot Complain [of]

     This Encloses a Bill of Lading for 11 hogsheads of Tobacco of that [Con]
-cern Consign'd you, by the Gloster , I hadDesign'd you [more]
but when the Crops Came to be Concluded, fell short inm [y]
Reckoning. I saw the Tobacco myself, it Appear'd to me ex
-traordinary Good.

     Herein is Another Invoice for the familys [use] Ipray God it
meets wth better Success than the last did. There are some
things in it, not AbsolutelyNecessary for the familys servts. use, as the
Spice, the Wine &ca. but inregard the house is kept there,
and We are forc'd often to Trouble my Sister . Wormeley when
We do any business about the Childrens Estate; I think it
but Reasonable, they ShouldContribute Something to her house
keeping, I wish you take Care to let the Wine be good which thing you
[illegible] are but seldom Guilty of.

     A fifth part of the Last Crop that went home belong'd
to my Sister Wormeley, of which she has Desir'd me to give you
Notice, This Year She has her Own Tobaccoe herself, And
has sent a good the Chief part O'nt to you, Not Else to Add at
present but am Sr.