I believe it is your practice to settle the annual accounts of your customers about the month of Septemb[er.] I will thank you for the copy of mine for the last year, a[s] soon as convenient. it will be convenient for me to have it under view as soon as may be in preparing arrangement[s] for the paiment of monies the ensuing spring. I have it much at heart henceforward1 to pay my merchant’s account regul[arly] every spring. and altho it is a most inauspicious ye[ar] to begin such a course, the wheat of the last year having been mostly eaten for want of corn, and what is left not being likely to bring, clear of carriage, more than 2. or 3/. yet I must try to effect it. or as nearly as possible.

Will you come and take a dinner with two o[r] three neighbors on Sunday? it is long since you hav[e] done us that favor. I inclose a 30.D. bill with a reques[t] to send me smaller bills in exchange for it. accept the assurance of my friendly esteem & respect.