[illegible] New York July 25 1796 My Dear [undecipherable] Confiding in your integrity and friendship to me, I have made you Executor of my Will — My reasons are not very [undecipherable] and some will not give you much trouble. Indeed I [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] with the memory of [making?] [undecipherable] as that I may myself learn had it a [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] little [undecipherable] ought to be [undecipherable] as readily and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be to the benefit of my few Creditors — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] I leave my [undecipherable] to the [benevolence?] of those if my [undecipherable] [shall?] happen to [me?] [undecipherable] here. My [property?] will [appear?] in [undecipherable] [The S?] hereto marked A My [Creditors?] are [John?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to whom I owe [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as will appear in [Account?] marked B → [undecipherable] the [Office?] of [different?] [undecipherable] [John?] New York who holds [undecipherable] a note of mine of five [hundred?] Dollars and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] — Two [holders?] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [drawn?] upon me [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [hundred?] [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his [money?] [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] [always?] [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my intention to [pay?] — [undecipherable] of [Philadelphia?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to whom I owe [undecipherable] of [account?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [Hudson?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] me who has [lent?] his hand on [paper?] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] me [when?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [Wind?] [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [minute?] of [undecipherable] those [follow?] [undecipherable] I have left in the hands of [undecipherable] But [left?] the [obligatory?] mentioned in the [life?] of Cortlandt and of Wickham & Thompson to [secure?] him in this more act of friendship from the [possible?] [loss?] & to accelerate his reimbursement I hesitated whether I would not also [secure?] a preference to the drafts of my father — but this as far as I am concerned [being?] a merely voluntary engagement, I doubted the justice of the measure, and I have done nothing — I regret it [less?] that [it?] [could?] return upon him, and [increase?] his [difficulties?] though as I am informed a man of [my?] respectable connections in Scotland [undecipherable] he became bankrupt at an early [age?] in the West Indies and is now in indigence — [those?] [urged?] him to come to me but his [state?] [urged?] him to [come?] to [me?] — [owing?] [to?] the change of climate I hope what I leave may [prove?] [sufficient?] equal to my [debts?]. If it was not [blame?] the condition of [things?] he [as?] he will be permitted by himself to [fall?] [upon?] my brother in law M^r [Church?] who [knew?] friendship and generosity I do not [distrust?] I regret that his affairs as well as my own have [suffered?] by my devotion to the public [service?]. But I will [add?] [upon?] the whole that the [two?] operations [I?] have made for him will more than [recompense?] him for my [omissions?], though this will not have been as profitable to him as they [could?] [right?] to have been [as?] they would have been if I [could?] have [hard?] more [attention?] Purchases of lands have been made for M^r [Church?] [first?] in [Pennsylvania?] a [Company?] with [Tenet?] [I?] [to?] [warm?] [undecipherable] — [advanced?] ten thousand Dollars [undecipherable] in the city of New York in company with [undecipherable] to whom I have [undecipherable] the [two?] [undecipherable] In the [account?] marked [undecipherable] a [bundle?] [undecipherable] Before these advances[,] [there?] [put?] [will?] [undecipherable] [the?] [hands?] a [draft?] [of?] [undecipherable] [upon?] [him?] from [some?] five [hundred?] [undecipherable] to the [letter?] for [some?] [thousand?] Dollars and a [list?] of [bills?] for five [hundred?] [pounds?] [undecipherable] [account?] from the [hands?] of [Clinton?] [Day?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the same [account?] [also?] [purchases?] You will find in the [bundle?] marked A B marked D [undecipherable] [who?] [will?] [tell?] [undecipherable] the [nature?] and [state?] of the [original?] [will?] M^r [Coop?] by which [all?] you will see that M^r [Andrew?] who is my good man is my [Agent?] in this [affair?] You will also find in the [Bundle?] AA a [note?] of M^r Morris and Nine [hundred?] [and?] four [hundred?] [undecipherable] on [account?] of whom the [several?] [and?] [also?] [find?]. Any note [undecipherable] you [move?] [and?] [account?] to [Accounts?] [The?] Morris will not [desirable?] [ask?] [up?] [undecipherable] [captured?] from the Bank [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [ones?] who ten [hundred?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and M^r Morris after [some?] from [Floyd?] and [undecipherable] five [hundred?] & the [undecipherable] [Brady?] to [see?] [undecipherable] [estimated?] and [account?] M^r Morris [undecipherable] [from?] [undecipherable] the [ball?] — As the money now here [undecipherable] [dispatched?] if the [thanks?] in [attention?] if I [applied?] [there?] if it [undecipherable] [acceptable?] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a Bank myself as [incomplete?] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a Bank [undecipherable] that M^r Morris will [proceed?] [promptly?] to [pay?] the [balance?] [quickly?] to [applied?] be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [became?] a [undecipherable] I have received from [here?] [pay?] [undecipherable] for which the [parties?] could not [have?] [had?] [compensate?] from [Winchester?] One [hundred?] [pounds?] from [Buffalo?] One [hundred?] [pounds?] [undecipherable] [Masonic?] One [hundred?] [pounds?] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [cash?] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [will?] [undecipherable] One [thousand?] [undecipherable] [thousand?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of these [undecipherable] [undecipherable] But perhaps [here?] I [doubt?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] And [this?] [you?] [my?] friend — Be allured always of the Attachment of A. Hamilton [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my [day?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] an [order?] on the [Bank?] of [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] for a [good?] [part?] of her demands This will [appear?] by my [master?] [Accounts?] — In my [letter?] [undecipherable] where the [bundle?] [undecipherable] [am?] is also a [bundle?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I R [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to then [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [intrust?] that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] done [by?] a careful hand — The [book?] [contains?] all in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Robert [Troup?]