Your favor of the 13th is received inclosing2 my account, by which I perceive you are greatly in advance on the stock of my flour now in your hands. I am in hopes you have sold it, as I see little immediate hope from holding it up. They tell us indeed of 7000 militia and regulars collected at Norfolk, these would call I suppose, for 500, Barrels of flour a week which might give a little motion to sales on James river, as they can get it nowhere else, but I see that no effect from so feeble a cause can make the produce in your hands adequate to my calls, an ordinary living price would do it, but nothing short of that; besides a draught of this day in favor of Joseph B. Proctor for 63D 9c, I owe neighborhood debts, chiefly for corn, the consequence of the unexampled drought of the last year, to the amount of 600D of which 200D are immediately wanting and the rest soon demandable. I have to remit to Philadelphia shortly 140D and in the course of 2 or 3 months, shall need 1000D more, for all which I have no resource but the produce in your hands, the wheat just now severed, and the tobacco now growing. Of the former the crop is indifferent, it will yield about 500 Barrels of flour only; the tobacco probably about 30,000 weight, until these come in I shall be much distressed to get along, unless the bank will indulge me with an addition of 1000, or 1500,D to my note at it’s next renewal. I had counted confidently on a very contrary operation on that note; but embargoes and blockades have defeated all the resources counted on, I must request you to ask this favor from the bank and to send me by post the 200D above mentioned as wanted here immediately: and I shall be anxious to hear from you; for I assure you I am in a state of great uneasiness from the suppression of the ordinary means of paiment, occasioned by the times. my mill too, which has heretofore rented for 1280,D now brings nothing, because people avoid the expense of manufacturing what cannot be sold. Accept the assurance of my great esteem and respect