the Company is to Pay 1000,000 down & the rest in Installments every six months and to be at the charge of surveying — Since Mr Lewis's departure those have been busily employed Cap^t Beatty's accounts are just on the close. I has been the most complex piece of work I ever undertook — Cap^t Comp Paymaster to the Maspachiusetts Troops and the Paymaster of [undecipherable] Regiment are now waiting their accounts I expect from the completion of them will keep me untill your arrival, which I hope will not be postpoen'd to a longer time than you are pledged to mention — Jⁿ. Lurie Eng^r Sam^l d. Howell J^r [new letter begins] Richmond March 23^d 1787 Dear Sir As you have drawn from me every Paper that could elucidate a contingent fate of an Affair, I am unable now to find the cause of the Widow of the late Lieu^t Stevenson if I recollect right the Papers I sent you appeared fully sufficient in my eye how they may be viewed by you is another matter. I think they likewise prove that the [tied]