New York, April 7^th 1786. Sir, In account of Mess^rs [undecipherable] [undecipherable] transmitted to me, by Acts Etc. and I should have sent the certificate on the same to [undecipherable], agreeable to your request, had not a misfortune been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the Misun [undecipherable] to be [strikethrough: where it is previously accounted for.] My account of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it will be necessary that [undecipherable] if you [undecipherable] to have a Certificate from the Probate Office, as governing the administrators or executors on the Estates. [M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable]]