Boston July 20^th 1789 My dear General I had the last evening the pleasure of receiving your Excellency's [undecipherable] kind and welcome favour of the 31^st Ulto. It will be pleasing no doubt to [strikethrough: those persons] them they find that federal ideas [undecipherable] in your part of the United States. Things here wear a complexion which [undecipherable] that a large majority of your people are found to the new Constitution and I am confident they will embrace the government with affections. [I]teem it not [undecipherable] for the language of administration when I tell you Excellency that the late elections of [undecipherable: President] and Vice President are so perfectly agreeable to the general voice of the people that [undecipherable] flashes in the countenance of every real federalist. As for those of a different character, feeling a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] cannot but unite in applauding the [undecipherable] of the electors. When I left public life I had not the last idea of ever returning to it again, or that I should much interest my [undecipherable] in the affairs of this or of the United [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that by the [undecipherable] economy in the habits of private life an early cultivated [undecipherable] to be able to give [undecipherable] to my family in the [undecipherable] of life. [undecipherable] I admit things [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] impelled to confess the [undecipherable] fate. The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] me from this [undecipherable] plan — [undecipherable] not allow me with any [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from the employment [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of the Government — which respects to me [undecipherable] cannot [undecipherable] the interest of [undecipherable] to rise and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] to consider that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] those now [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of acting [undecipherable] upon. Every [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had been made with most [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and they have to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of many [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] other property than a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of that office with the amount of the right as [undecipherable] give an honorable [undecipherable] to any [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. The [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the L[ieutenant] Governor [undecipherable] the first [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Leutenant Governor they requested 300 which went to [undecipherable] in addition to his pay as a [undecipherable: councilor] but from [undecipherable] please [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] passing, and [undecipherable] to find the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the great distraction, [undecipherable] made between [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on [undecipherable: Wells] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that it would ever be allowed — [undecipherable] after forty years close application to [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] a number of them under the [undecipherable] of your [undecipherable]. I am [undecipherable] they mean of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] upon which I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] and my own interest and happiness, the consequence of which is that [undecipherable], as a [undecipherable], at this late [undecipherable] of life, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or a friend in our Eastern [undecipherable: boundary], or offer my self as a candidate for some office in the new government, was [undecipherable] with a family. I should not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], I had to do, but the [undecipherable] would be [undecipherable] to them I ought, [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] the table. — To your Excellency I am as fully [undecipherable] as to any one Gentleman in the States. If there should be any [undecipherable] to me to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that it in your Excellency's opinion I can fill with advantage to the public, and honor to my self and one — to which I can approach with [undecipherable: equal] pretentions, in every respect, as any other [undecipherable] one to hope for your [undecipherable] patronage — [undecipherable] — Nothing I hope [has] been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for me to [undecipherable], [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your Excellency [undecipherable] by this application as now it is indeed [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that you are [undecipherable: elected] President of the United States in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] more enjoy, more real [undecipherable: happiness] [undecipherable] than [undecipherable] who has the honor [undecipherable] with the highest [undecipherable] [undecipherable] My dear [undecipherable] your Excellency [undecipherable: most obedient] humble [undecipherable] [His] Excellency Gen^l Washington