JB/539/414/002

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service enable me to pursue private concerns with much greater
advantage, and these are what will occupy me now as much
as my situation in other respects will admit of.

What interests me most of all is still undecided: I have very
little hopes of success, yet she is not at all disposed to give it up.

I have received your packet by Capt. Keddy, and I will send
you what you wish for by a Ship that is nearly ready to sail.

You intended sending me a paper of Anderson's on the application
of falling water to mill wheels; but I have not found it
yet in any of the parcels you have sent me. 'tis true I have
not yet got the one containing the cloathes from the custom-house;
for I have had much plague about it. So far from
not paying duty every article will pay at least 40 p -ct
and the silk cloaths are according to law confiscated and
a fine of the amount of their value to be paid likewise.
no assurances of their being exported back again immediately
can save them: Yet I have some hopes of getting out of their

Identifier: | JB/539/414/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-09-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	414	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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