[XXIX-17 83a] [76] Philadelphia 28^th Sep^t 179[undecipherable] My dear Sir Some time ago you wrote me a line relative to a nephew of Judge Halis[undecipherable]kenny into the military line. [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] an Ensigncy on the regular regiments is now vacant [interlinear: [undecipherable] him app[oin]tments — [undecipherable]] and at his service. I am apprehensive that you and his other friends may think that he ought [to] be [strikethrough: [undecipherable] and] a grade— But this is not possible except [interlinear: [undecipherable]] on the papers of a new corps— Will you be so good as to obtain his decision and inform me thereof — [If] he accepts give him orders — M^r Izzard informs me that he placed in your hands a pamphlet of the Yazens Company. I ardently wish if you have leisure that you would soon [render?] Johnson [and] furnish me with documents [strikethrough: the pamphlets] the [part?], appended to the pamphlet relative to the title — [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] The [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Britain has divided Carolinas, and included Georgia [or of the?] — And by the proclamation of 1763, added to Georgia the lands lying between the heads of the S^t Marys and the Altamaha — I'm [undecipherable] The following is, after much of my own The [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] of where over the, [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] in the charters of Georgia declaring the Altamaha from its mouth to its [undecipherable] and thence a west line to the [undecipherable] Mississippi [tale?] the extreme [undecipherable] boundary both of Georgia and South Carolina — Or [were] there any [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] — by which Georgia obtained the right of the lands between the [undecipherable] of the two [undecipherable] — [between] the headwaters of the S^t Marys and the Altamaha? As this matter may probably be brought before Congress in their next [session?] — I am desirous of possessing [some] knowledge of the subject, and I know not to whom better [to apply] for it than to you. I am Dear Sir Your affectionate most sincere friend [undecipherable] H[undecipherable] The Hon^ble Rufus King Esq^r. [Copies / 28 Sept / [undecipherable]]