[undecipherable]                                    3080 Cincinnati Nov^r 1[undecipherable], 179[undecipherable] Dear Sir This Letter is to ask a favour— (Ab) of Judge Turner or acting of the Judges of this Territory should make a Vacancy upon the Bench in this Country (the former from his long Absence I imagine intends [undecipherable]) I now request your Interest in filling his. There must a Char- acter of most Law Knowledge and Integrity — [undecipherable] Sebastian living at the Rapids of the Ohio — I want to [undecipherable] St Clair and I believe [undecipherable] by the Virginia members in Congress [undecipherable] is very desirous of removing to the [undecipherable] General Wilkinson with whom he has long been in the habit of Intercourse has reported to him the Congress [undecipherable] — make provision for the [undecipherable] of a Judge Advocate in the Army and to the pay of a Field Officer [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this happen my dear Sir and no Vacancy among the Judges of this Territory [undecipherable] Sebastian might be appointed to, I en- treat your Exertions for him in this Lines far as may be consistent with your own views — I beg leave to present my best respects to M^rs Knox and your Family and am very affectionately your obedient humble Servant Winthrop Sargent [undecipherable]