[Docket on cover:] [No. [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Aug [undecipherable] 1796 — [undecipherable] 25^th — Letter from [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] I have at [undecipherable] this 13^th May, and not a line from you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to avow you are engaged in my best [undecipherable] — d. M[undecipherable] [undecipherable] and for yourself — As [undecipherable] more do I hear of [undecipherable] in this [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] you to some [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] It might there[undecipherable] upon its [undecipherable] — Enclosed you [undecipherable] a letter from Capt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to my [undecipherable] find he or has [undecipherable] I have not time to be explicit [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] this is something [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] — I beg you to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] with[undecipherable] delay, be good enough to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] should [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] thing — see the [undecipherable] can carry on or be [undecipherable] Through [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have you [undecipherable] honesty in your hands — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will come on [undecipherable] a sample [undecipherable] [undecipherable] obligations. Adieu W Sargent [Received stamp] [Enclosure wrapper addressed to: Winthrop Sargent Esq^r — 1796] [Postal notation: may 5] Boston May 5^th 1796 I did myself the [undecipherable] of writing you some [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the situation of the Virginia [undecipherable], and agreeably to M^r [undecipherable] request [undecipherable], that according to the Contract, on the delivery of the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] each Subscriber gave his Note of Hand [undecipherable] to an [undecipherable] as follows N^o 1^st the first for 500 D^rs payable on or before the 1^st of Jan^y 1797 with interest, the 2^d for 625 D^rs payable on or before the 1^st of Jan^y 98 & the 3^d for the same payable on or before the 1^st of Jan^y 1799 — The Company and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to convey the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] consisting of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Baby, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] good bonds of indemnification to [undecipherable] out of the Contract which [undecipherable] is lodged in the [undecipherable] Bank. They are also to give as Certificates to each holder [undecipherable] of his right in the [undecipherable], which ever a [undecipherable] shall be agreed upon. For the conveyance of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], some [undecipherable] difficulty [undecipherable] your [undecipherable], which was [undecipherable] by M^r [undecipherable] and myself, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] therefore request you into be good enough to send your Note payable to some [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who will [undecipherable] it, by which [undecipherable] may be enabled to take up [undecipherable], it would be as well at the same time to send a [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of anything that may, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] him, there is a [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] acres which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had also [undecipherable] also. [undecipherable] not being able to com- ply with the contract [undecipherable], they were obliged to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]