I am very much obliged to you for the present you
were so good to send me of the fifty pound bill
of Exchange w''^ I duely received. We hear Car-
thagene is taken. M- Wall is is dead. Captain
Korberry was lately killed in a duel by Cap^

Dobinure^ whose life is dispaired of by the wounds

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ELIZA PINCKNEY

he received; he is much blamed for quarreling with
i9uch a l^rawling man as Korberry who was disre*
garded by every body. Norberry has left a wife
and 3 or 4 children in very bad circumstances to
lament his rashness. Mama tenders you her affec-
tions and poUy joyns in duty with
My Dear Papa
Your ob^ and ever Devoted Daughter

E Lucas

To supply the demand for provisions in Anti-
gua, she immediately wrote to the overseers at
the different plantations; —

^'NovT.. 1741 Wrote to Mr Murry to send
down a boat load of white oak staves, bacon and
salted beef for the West Indias. Sent up at the
same time salt, salt peter and brown sugar for the
bacon, and a couple of bottles of wine for Mrs
Murry, and desire he will send down all ye butter
and hog's lard.''

And soon after : —

^^ Sent my father his kettledrums, informed him
of Mr Smith's selling y? rumm he sent us, and
giving away y* preserved sorrel, tho he assurd us
'twas by mistake put on board a vessel going to
Barbadoes and carried there. Sad wretch 1 Pay^
the compt' of all his friends who treat us with great
kindness and civility. Sent for West India Con-
cumber seed.
