[Page 1 is an archival placeholder card reading "Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically"] [Page 2 is blank/illegible] I left Boston on friday last and reached this place on Saturday — [now?] encountering this authority here, I was [obliged?] to remain as [exact?] as possible, and [undecipherable] give further evidence [undecipherable] more of some other considering in his [undecipherable] [have?] some other [undecipherable] as to [his?] rights to be protected — in which I sent for a [Capt?] [undecipherable] to he [protected?] and not only in the [settlement?] of the [lands?] but the [basis?] in any [office?] but also in [obtaining?] the [certificate?] to the [Office?] of [Morris?] — here I found [papers?] [sent?] of [Morrell?] being arrested in Boston, and [being?] [informed?] and [undecipherable] proposed to have [undecipherable] [Office?] this Taking of some. A very black paper, no[body?] said it might be of false [cause?] — and [take?] on [undecipherable] [informing?] his [strong?] [abolition?] of the [measures?] — [undecipherable] it [ought?] to be [heard?] no more of it — nor did he had [suspected?] the land taken [up?] until he had [learned?] of his being arrested in Boston — [some?] [by?] this conviction I received by reports from Boston the originals of the [enclosed?] [deposition?] — which puts the fact beyond the probability of doubt — I brought also copies of the [certificates?] with me — now [showing?] them to the [good?] [cause?] in [Mis?] [laws?], they immediately [found?] did [it?] [constitute?] [family?] of the [same?] Town in the [said?] [Mrs.?] as the [attorney?] — I [am?] addressing morning before [due?] day to the [President?] of the [State?] who will [certainly?] here the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] lived with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] some new [application?] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] as the [bond?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [applied?] [one?] [thing?] as the [bond?] [undecipherable] [appointment?] [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [Send?] to the [undecipherable] Persons who live about thirty miles from this — I know that he will return, thank you earnestly [undecipherable] to [accustom?] and to [inform?] the Board of [his?] [complaint?] [undecipherable] this time [lands?] this day which of [my?] [people?] to [Start?] my [office?] was [will?] [be?] known, to every very [sing?] — and [persons?] [appointed?] as [supposed?] to assist [from?] [undecipherable] [difficulties?] [have?] of many [--?] [additions?] [However?] there [is?] [every?] who are now [considered?] [those?] in [any?] part of the country, that I have found it still [impossible?] to his [embarrass?] any where — this [seems?] not to be very [apprehensive?] that [Morris?] will [be?] [the?] [impossible?] will get [information?] of [my?] [being?] never [before?] the [Sheriff?] [overtakes?] him — I [believe?] have not been this way — if I am very [unfortunate?] is not [saving?] [him?] will then — I the Board will [beforehand?] to [excuse?] this [in?] [coming?] [instead?] of my [letters?] as I have not had [time?] to [copy?] a [copy?] of [these?], and it has [appeared?] [meeting?] to me to [Forward?] to the Board with the [sign?] I take the [undecipherable] [undecipherable?] should [is?] [communicate?] any thing [clear?] [respecting?] the [circumstance?] of any other [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Your most obed^t Serv^t?] [signature — undecipherable] [lower panel, address leaf:] [undecipherable] person has been sent by M^r [Lewis?]