be so obliging as to inform me what [undecipherable] [undecipherable] super- ceded [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it seems [undecipherable] to ascertain it in order to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Indian affairs J. Pierce [undecipherable] 1790 Jan[uary] Boston Jan^y 21. 1790 My Dear Friend, I take the liberty of inclosing a letter for my Brother which will [undecipherable] to be he be forwarded as soon as convenient & I am much oblig'd by the information you gave me of him whilst at Georgia, it was the only intely'c[e] I had of him during his absence. My Brother requests me to enquire, if you receiv'd a Letter from him sometime since which he wrote you about the bounty land due to my late Brother [Handy?] and to which [the/they] was heir at Law he therein requested that a certif[ic]'t or entry of it might be made so as to entitle him to it. Our Gov'r Council are now sitting, and Counselor [Dardner?] has be[en] [undecipherable] a Plan of [undecipherable] both of the Law & the Professors of it — [believing?] I discern a Change that may affect you very materially if adopted it is to meet & to [undecipherable] the Fellows in two who have been in possession thro' [undecipherable] years, on their praying — [undecipherable] equal to the Value [undecipherable] in a different State — I assure you El'r Thomas — very busy with M^r Gardnor — I make this Excuse in the multiplicity of y^r business you might escape of notice in the Newspapers — a Stay last Comp[limen]ts to M^r Knox regards to his Brother comple[ments] me. Dunkin. Yours affectionate friend Joseph Pierce [c Major Gen'l Knox]