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I take this first opportunity of acknowledging
the Honour of your obligeing Letter dated the 16. of October for
which I return you my humble thanks, pursuant to your Comand
I herewith send to M.^r Perry all the things that have been so long
in my Custody except the Spurrs. I hapned to be in want of a
pair Spurs which I could not readily furnish my selfe with
and beleiving that another pair or the weight of them might
be as Acceptable to you, I took them and have worne them soe
much that they are not fitt to send you, the weight of them
was four ounces Seven penny weigh & Sixteen Graines when
they were weighed here [for there was none of the Goldsmiths
weight nor noe Stamp either of the Goldsmiths or of Sterling
but onely your Armes upon them whence I concluded he did
not make them of fine Silver] wherefore I doe here inclose a
note to Mess^rs. Perry to pay the valew of them when you please
to Demand it, I have sent the things to Cap^t. Posford Master
of the Harrison who hath promised to deliver them with his
own hand. The measles hath been epidemicall amongst us
this winter, it hath run quick thro my family tho I thank
God I have lost none but a young Negroe woman, but poor M.^rs
Berkeley dyed of it, as did Jenny Burwell M.^rs Churchill M.^rs
Page who was her daughter) M.^rs Corbin & some others. If the
Governor does not force me noething but absolute Necessity
can oblige me to take an other voyage; the Sea being so very
disagreeable and the absence of my family soe uneasie to me
but indeed his resentment is extraordinary and if it Should
be my fortune to see England again I shall be Sure to doe my
selfe the honour to wait on you in the mean time I besceeh
you to Accept my best wishes and be assured I am

Col. Ludwell
1717
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To The Hon^ble.
Francis Nicholson, Esq.^r
under M^r Perrys Cover.