Sir Durham Dec^r 6. 1785 The Roads for two weeks past has been so extremely bad that I could not engage Teams to take [the] Fran down, and now have been oblaged to [undecipherable] one [undecipherable] our own Teams with a [undecipherable] could [undecipherable] spare it from my own [undecipherable] have another Team today [which] shall endeavour to Send next week & the remaining Team the week after, but the weather is so precarious & the late rainy season has made the roads so extremely bad in these parts that I hope you will not impute it to design, should it not come, [with?] should that be the case, I shall retain the Fran & keep it ready to send as soon as roads & weather will permit. — Hope this Team will give satisfaction as I think it is much sounder & neater than [undecipherable: Andersons?] I am Sir yo^r ob^t Hum^le Serv^t Samuel Hodgdon Esq^a Richard Backhouse [Letter from Richard Backhouse — Dated 6 Decem^r 1785 — Rec^d [undecipherable]] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24. 1894. R.P.O. 401810.]