[Cover notation: No. [undecipherable]; [undecipherable] 1796; Letter from [undecipherable] Sargent] The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] here at [undecipherable] this 13^th May, and not a line from you — I presume as [undecipherable] you are much engaged on my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to M^r [undecipherable] and for yourself — as I find not nor do I [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in this [undecipherable] wish you to [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and if you are to [undecipherable] Inquiries to [undecipherable] John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] upon its Absence — Enclose you a Letter from Cap^t [undecipherable] rela- tive to my Land [undecipherable] because I have not time to be explicit thereupon and because there is something [undecipherable] to be done — I wish you to do the [undecipherable] with[undecipherable] delay, and be good enough to [undecipherable] me [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] at the same time — on this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be transmitted through [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] in your hands — [undecipherable] upon my Money's [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] enough to Discharge their obligations Adieu W. Sargent [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1804. R.P.O. 401310.] --- [Enclosure; address cover: Winthrop Sargent Esq.; 1796] Boston May 5^th. 1796 [Received from State Dep't. Nov. [undecipherable]. R.P.O. 401810.] I did myself the pleasure of writing you some [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the situation of the [undecipherable] purchase, and agreeably to M^r Murray's request report, that according to the Contract, on the delivery of the plats and surveys each Subscriber gave his Note of Hand payable to an endorse as follows: N^o. 1 the first for 500 Dls payable on or before the 1^st of Jany 1797, with interest, the 2^d for 625 Dls payable on or before the 1^st of Jany 98 — the 3^d for the same payable on or before 1^st of Jany 1799 — The Company not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the plats [undecipherable] consisting of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]: [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and gave bonds of indemnification to the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] which bond is lodged in the [undecipherable] Bank. they are also to give a Certificate to each holder indicative of his right in the [undecipherable] when ever a price shall be agreed upon. For the conveyance of the plats & surveys, some little difficulty [undecipherable] touching your part, which was [undecipherable] by M^r [undecipherable] and my[undecipherable] [undecipherable] accountable [undecipherable] therefore request you to be good enough to send your Notes payable to some [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] who will endorse it, by which we may be enabled to take up [undecipherable], it would be at the same time to send a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] anything that may [undecipherable] [undecipherable]; there is [undecipherable] money, that [undecipherable]; there is a [undecipherable] for 900,000 acres which [undecipherable] Taylor held at [undecipherable], but not being able to com- ply with the contract without, they were obliged to surrender [undecipherable] among the rest, by which M^r Taylor informed M^r Blake they [undecipherable] 10,000 Dolls. for the [undecipherable] present we have had offers of 25 Cents, payable in One year [undecipherable], payable in two, but the [undecipherable] not being adequate we refused — at present there is a person in [undecipherable] equal to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I believe his offers are not quite as high as the former ones — If any thing necessary for you to know should present before I leave this. I will do my[undecipherable] the pleasure of making your acquaintance on the [undecipherable] I am with the best [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] Ser^vt: [undecipherable] D. [undecipherable] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 21, 1804. R.P.O. 401310.] [W Sargent Esq. —]