[duplicata] 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 209 ¹/₇₀ Dollars and forward it by Some Safe private hand. Accordingly yesterday I took out the certificate for the above Sum, N^o 697 Signed "Benj^s 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 [undecipherable] Not meeting with any Gentleman consenting 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 [855] --- M^rs Mary M^cNeill relict of the late Hector M^cNeill Sen^r [underline: Knox] Boston