[duplicate] New York 13 Jan^y 1788 Dear Madam I wrote you some time ago, that I would take out the certificate, of the sum due your late husband, amounting to 2091⁵⁴/90 Dollars and forward it by some safe private hand. Accordingly yesterday I took out the certificate for the above sum, N^o 697, Signed "Benja Walker Commissioner" which bears an interest annually of better than 120 dollars, for 10 years past which is upwards of 1200 dollars interest — This interest is receivable in certificates of M^r Appleton, called facilities Not meeting with any Gentleman willing to take charge of your certificate, and presuming it might be useful to you for some purposes, I have ventured to enclose it in a letter of this tenor and date to my friend General Henry Jackson who will wait upon you with it, and receive from you duplicate receipts for the same I most sincerely wish that its present value was equal to the sum expressed, or that I could point out any mode to enhance its worth — But alas! it is not — Hope says it will be better in future — But no precise time can be affixed when it will be so. Wishing you Madam, and yours every human happiness I am your Sincere friend and humble Servant Knox M^rs Mary McNeill [Address: M^rs Mary McNeill / relict of the late / Hector McNeill Esq^r / Boston] [[underline: Knox]]