New York 4^th April 1786 To M^r Tobias Rudolph Jun^r [undecipherable: probable reading Specd Les Legeon] New York April [undecipherable] 9^th [undecipherable] 1786 Sir, The account of Mess^rs for [undecipherable] duty [undecipherable] transmitted to me, by M^r [undecipherable]; and I should have [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable], to [undecipherable] agreeable to your request, had not a copy of [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] necessary to be [undecipherable] it is frequently answered for. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] account also it will be necessary, that of [undecipherable] I enclose, [undecipherable] you forwarded to him a [undecipherable: probable reading certificate] from the Probate Office, of your being, the administrator or executor on the Estates. [M^r [undecipherable] Rudolph[?]]