[1581] [XXVI - 99] dear Harry Boston July 11^th 1799 I thank you for your fav[or] of the 4^th Inst — [(1791)] on Monday the Cincinna[ti] had a very respe[c]table meeting, we dine[d] together at Concert Hall & pass'd a happ[y] and joyful day. Judge [undecipherable] gave us a beautifull oration and was very much admir'd by all parties, except a few who disliked the word "Consolidation" they have attend'd the Judge in the papers, & I believe will not let him rest — we Elected the Same Officers we had last year, and chose our Delegates to attend at the General meeting in May next, they are General H. Knox — General [undecipherable] — General [undecipherable]. General Cobb & Doct[or] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the the Governor has been very Ill, he was [undecipherable: seiz'd?] violently on Monday last when attending the Town Oration. I saw him yesterday, he is much better & in a fair way to be from out again — I wish it was in your power to employ Capt. [undecipherable] in some way or other. he is really in a disagreable and distressing Situation. he is a man of [undecipherable: probity?] and integrity and altho his virtues must have frequently been put to the test, I believe he has never deviated from the [undecipherable] of a Gentleman and Soldier — his only crime, is his Poverty — how or which way he has kept along as to his Cloathing &c I am at a loss — the Family with whom he boards called on me yesterday, they are poor, but [undecipherable] very very friendly [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] & they say [undecipherable] for be their own for they could not have a greater affection for him and speak of him in the highest terms — [undecipherable] this Situation of [undecipherable] they cannot [undecipherable] him any longer. he has lived with them upwards of two years, they have done all his washing [undecipherable] the whole time, & they have never received one farthing as [undecipherable: least?] consideration, & they say he is [undecipherable: just?] a good man, if they were able they alone would let him go from them, but they are poor, & depend on boarders for their [undecipherable] — If you could find [undecipherable: business?] for him at West point or any where else, so as to take him from his present most [underline: disagreable Situation,] it would be [undecipherable] a Clever Fellow against a a future [undecipherable] — as to wages he [undecipherable] ask for [undecipherable], only to give him — [undecipherable] of a pair of Shoes & the Rations of a Soldier — only place him where he can be kept [underline: a live] until his Country may want his Services — he does not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you, as that the Family have [undecipherable] to me respecting him. thy discovered great delicacy on this business having [undecipherable] nothing to him on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] years, and I then [undecipherable] them to delay speaking to him for a short time — my love to M^rs Knox & the Family — Your affect[ionat]e H. Jackson [Gen^l. Ja[ckso]n 12. July 1799 —] Gen^l. Knox —