Novr. 4^th. 1796 — Cincinnati — Excuse my friend my so much troubling you — though only, as far tho I have elapsed since I wrote, not a licion from Captain [undecipherable] — upon the Subject of [underline: that Land Speculation] which I have heretofore written to you upon and also not [undecipherable] memorandum — makes it necessary I [undecipherable] a licion upon [undecipherable] affair — Turner says he [undecipherable] must be due from me in forty-nine — [undecipherable] in '98, and 550 in July of 1799 — that [undecipherable] an and requests I would adjust the Business with Mr [undecipherable] — I think you [undecipherable] you would attend to it — to write the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] is with you and [undecipherable] you know, and be [undecipherable] enough if Benjamin is in Boston to press upon him to make himself so master of the whole Subject of this Business as to determine you whether it be best to [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] the purchase [undecipherable] accordingly — There is a [undecipherable] opportunity [undecipherable] — the under [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] containing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] you and me an in some [undecipherable] a coming to [undecipherable] things in — a [undecipherable] of that Land, thin, about [undecipherable] [undecipherable] long to prevent the Water from coming in [undecipherable] — how comes on your house:? — [undecipherable] had in the [undecipherable]. I've [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] calculate the Contents of a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of 5000 Acres with less than 500[undecipherable] mistake in [undecipherable] — about [undecipherable] Determine a True meridian in [undecipherable] or three months and that he is more incapable of making a simple [undecipherable] Observation — [undecipherable] in the discharge of his Duties — he is however it seems [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] stated [undecipherable] compass to you [undecipherable] this in — the Private Instances [undecipherable] — as I have endeavored to [undecipherable] men and [undecipherable] in the Public Offices — [undecipherable] Office [undecipherable] are the more ample Testimonials of my [undecipherable] for such Employment — [undecipherable] to devise I had made up my mind but I [undecipherable] myself [undecipherable] for the public Good and [undecipherable] that it might have been [underline: carefully depended] — I want to [undecipherable] you would find out for me how it has happened that I am so very very [undecipherable] a Favourites of the Presidents, but [undecipherable] to him [undecipherable] I had me [undecipherable] so [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Offices and [undecipherable] — my republican kinsmen — but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to express of my very best wishes — [undecipherable] to all your Family and me particularly to [undecipherable] — P.S. I have annually had a Newspaper since I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — by this opportunity, I'm [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to French [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] me [undecipherable] I have done [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] my Home as I am [undecipherable] for them in vain — P.S. [undecipherable] at the two [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to make my [undecipherable] [undecipherable]