"Annexed please find Capt. Simmons receipt for 8800 Brick & 12 ??? Kaolin & invoice of same amounting to $390.17 for which you will pleased send me your note or a check (as may be most agreeable to you), deducting 5 per cent for cash. I could furnish the remainder of the tricks (except perhaps some few of the shapes) by the next week if not before. If you should conclude to want ??? so soon you will please advise me by return mail saying when you ??? would probably be here. I should have ??? to send some of the shape of No. 9 quality as in this instance but could furnish the common bricks as ordered.

I should like to sell you a lot of refuse ??? of rather better quality as to condition than those I sold you some time ago, & would charge you $25 per ??. You will please say whether you would like to have a few thousand.

Respectfully,

Your obedient servant

John R. Watson

PS If you should want more No. 2 Bricks, I can ship you at now or as soon as the Excel can return 10 L 20 dwt."

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According to his Wikipedia page,

In 1821, Richard Borden established the Fall River Iron Works, along with Major Bradford Durfee, and several others at the lower part of the Quequechan River. The Iron Works began producing nails, bar stock, and other items such as bands for casks in the nearby New Bedford whaling industry. By 1845, the company was valued at $960,000. 

In 1827, Borden began regular steamship service to Providence Rhode Island. Borden later constructed the Metacomet Mill in 1847. The Fall River Branch Railroad was incorporated in 1844 and opened in 1845 and traveled to Myricks Junction, with a connection to Boston via Mansfield via the Taunton Branch Railroad. Also in 1847, regular steamship service to New York City began as the Bay State Steamboat Company, later known as the Fall River Line. It was America's most luxurious steamship line connecting rail travelers from Boston to Manhattan. It would operate until 1937.