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gS Dociivioits whatever comes from your hand must be agreeable. I am extreamly glad to hear you are Chiefly directed by your Broth' Cap! Craigie and I think myself highly obliged to him both for his advice and assistance to you in my absence, I having of this date wrote him myself and given him my most hearty thanks for his good offices to you and begged his continou- ance of the same. I begg you to advise with your Brother on that paragraph of my last letter with respect to your moving here, and I have likeways now begged him to write me his thoughts on the same subject, so that I expect you will both write me fully on recept of this, and I begg you to put him in mind of it. I have also wrote him to be assisting to you, untill such time as the ports are oppen for trade betwixt Britain and the CoUonies and the disputes made up betwixt them, for untill that is done there is no such thing as remitting money or goods from any part of America to Britain, which gives me a good deall of trouble on your Ace! of which your Broth' can more fully inform you of. As also of the engagements that has been betwixt the British troops and the forces of the united Collonies before Boston as room wou'd faill me here to do it. As to Ml' Forbes pray make my Comptf to him and spouse and tell him from me that I make no doubt from the information I have of his making good bread in this Country for that a Journaman Bricklayer here has no less than five shillings a day Currancy which is equall to four Shillings St!. And I am aquanted with an Undertaker in that branch of business who is now set down on good Estate and rides in his Chair every day. But if he was to come over he must resolve to give closs application to business and keep from drinking. About 7 months ago a Gentleman in Fredericksb! hade his two sons taken from the high school there and put under my care for which he pays me £^'^ a year. He is an English man himself and his Lady from Edinburgh,' and I have the pleasure to have given the parents such satisfaction that I hade sent me in a present two silk vest- coats and two pair of britches ready to put on for changes in summer. I observe my Dear Dogg George writes me his name at the foot of your letter. But I am surprized that you take no notice of Jack and Bettie. But I hope you will not faill to be more particular about them in your next, and give my blessing to them all and tell them from me that I hope they will be obedient to you in every respect and mind their books. Be- fore I get things brought to a bearing was any vessell by chance to put into Bressaysound^ bound for any part of Virginia or for Pawtomack river which divides this Collony from Maryland, I wou'd have you at all events Make your Brother apply for your Passage with the Children and a servant and imediatly dispose of every article in the house your Feather Bedds Bedding and Cloaths excepted, and if any money to spare lay it out in Linen ;' and write me imediatly on your Aravell here by post 1 Mr. and Mrs. Porter. 2 The harbor of Lerwick. 3 Linen was one of the chief articles of domestic manufacture and export from Shet- land in the eighteenth century.