Robert Carter writes to Liverpool merchant John Pemberton, September 16, 1727, concerning arrangements for the sale of slaves that have come into Virginia on board Pemberton's ship, the Rose commanded by James Christian, noting that many of the slaves are sick, and winter is coming.

      Captain Christian hath now brought me his Orders
Dated the September the 24th: 1726 in which find my name first put
in and then raced out, and Tom Nelson interlined at the End whereof
you Say Nelson would have Letters from you and if he Could Comply
with your Limitation the Negroes &ca. where [sic ] to be delivered
to him when you came to mention my name there is no Limitation added
if there had I would not meddle with them. In the Postscript you Say
if Tom Nelson in York river do not Comply with your Orders apply to
Robert Carter Esquire Rappahannock and Colonel Thomas Lee in Poto
mack and Mr. Bennet in Maryland Christian declares he hath
received no other orders from you Crump and Kagle at Barbados had
no orders he could hear of none in York to Mr. Nelson I have had none
from you relating to this Ship which makes me believe you intended no Limitations
to me for this ship hav ing only received from you advice of this Ship in
your Letters of October and December Date, many of the Slaves are
Ailing 18 put ashore to recruit three dead Since he came into this river his provisions in a manner All gone
a Cold Spell of weather upon us, the winds hang Northerly the