Capt Heron ¹ proposes to Settle with you Agreeable to the inclosed State, as I am unacquainted with the price of wheat at the Head of Elk and with the Custom respecting the allowance for deficiency of Weight, have wrote to Colo Hollingsworth for information and Shall do nothing till I hear from him. Mr. Heron insists that the price to be Allowed for the wheat was to be the market price at the time of delivery, And that the ballance of the money was not to be paid till Six or Seven weeks after the delivery of the last parcel but if you will take an order on Mr Rutland you Shall have one immediately on the full quantity of wheat being delivered. I wish to have your further Instructions by the next Post. Am obliged to the intendant for the attention to the Delegates. Since he has put our Supplys into the hands of Colo. Hollingsworth we have received our Allowances pretty regularly & whenever I may have Occasion to Call for the four hundred pounds of mine which your Excellency have been obliged to make use and to

   RC (MdHi: Lee, Horsey, and Carroll Papers deposit, 1988).