New York January 9^th 1786 Dictator While I was in Connecticut on the 19 Ult^d [undecipherable] week you acquit[ted?] [undecipherable], and further continuance of [undecipherable] business render[s] me [undecipherable] not [be] permitted that you would [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [the] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] not throw with your Register as soon as [possible] and [after] [the] [22d?] I also wrote to you and [undecipherable] of your Register. if they are not in and [are now] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [any] [form] that no [letter] [will] be [taken] for [or] for [further] to [long]. But if your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [can] [look] [at] letters to you [referring] [undecipherable] [you] [will] [give] that they [have] been [undecipherable] a [long] [time], [and] as you [now] [consider] that no [copy] [if] your [undecipherable] will [if] not [had] by you, [to make] no [undecipherable] to me, I [advise] [that] of you to [undecipherable] not [think] it right for it to go out of your [hands] without [a] [undecipherable] — to [refuse] [a] [undecipherable] [official] information is [commanded] by the [undecipherable], and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [could] you to [the] [undecipherable] to [see] your [undecipherable] [after] I am [however] [undecipherable] to [try] [undecipherable] that it [undecipherable] [appears] no [undecipherable] [wishes] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or to [discourage] the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] or to [bring] me [undecipherable] into too [trouble] it is in my [undecipherable] or my [fortune]; [this] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [come] if [this] [path] is [stopped], and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not only a [undecipherable] [some] [should] be [undecipherable] [other] to you or me, [a] [life] of a Thousand Dollars for a [Second] of [undecipherable] I am [satisfied] that in about two [days] [your] [register] will be [called] for and then I must in [undecipherable] [publicly] [undecipherable] [stations] [never] [entered] [undecipherable] my [letters] to you and [the] [subject], in order to [ensure] that [sufficient] [applications] [undecipherable] [more] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [me] for them. I [undecipherable] I shall [however] do [undecipherable] as [long] and [faithfully] [undecipherable] with [that] same [undecipherable] in any [pursuit] and [thank] you as [a] [undecipherable] to the same [in] [subject], [however] I beg if your [undecipherable] [use] if [questions] that I am [engaged] [undecipherable] to your minds to [comply] [undecipherable] the [subject] of this letter. [undecipherable] [Blanchard?] [undecipherable] is in the [undecipherable] to [relate] to the [undecipherable] for [Pennsylvania] [We] [men] [therefore] [apply] [there] [if] its [like] [procuring] your [undecipherable] here for his [due] [undecipherable] with [to] [State] of Virginia this [must] be [seen] in every [instance] as [M^r] [Boswell?] [settled] the [accounts] of [Captain] [undecipherable] from the [May?] 1796 [undecipherable] [having] [accounts] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they could not [take] it for [because] [undecipherable] [charges] [general]