I yesterday receiv’d your Favour of April 2. informing me that the Types I ordered by mine of Feb. 17. would be shipt (in about a Fortnight which I am glad to hear. I promis’d to make you good Pay, and accordingly on the 31st of March I wrote and sent a Bill for £150 to Messrs Smith, Wright & Gray my former Bankers in London, with Directions to pay your Bill, So that I doubt not your having receiv’d the Money within a few Weeks after you had shipt the Goods. I have set up my Grandson B. Franklin Bache in a Printing-House here, and what farther Founts he may want from you, he will send Bills to pay for. I approve much of your Resolution not to send your Types abroad upon Credit. Their Excellency will secure a sufficient Demand without it. Some other British Founders have been so extravagantly liberal in that Way, and thereby created such a Number of Master Printers more than the Business of the Country can maintain, as may be probably in the End hurtful to both the Debtors and Creditors.

Your Friend W. T. Franklin is well, at his Plantation 16 Miles from this City. I am glad to hear of the Welfare of you and yours, being with sincere Esteem, Dear Sir Your Friend and Servant