Philad: 28: Nov: 1796 Honor'd Sir I as a Citizen and one wishes to my fellow Creature, I think my duty in this [undecipherable] an Opportunity in [undecipherable] of this City of having that there is a Conspiracy between a Gang of Rogues, and that the greatest offender is now in Jail, and on his being brought before the [undecipherable], he has brought a Number of [undecipherable] Persons into a Scrape in Order to Clear himself, in particular a Man by the Name of Hubbard, who I Conceive is an Honest Man and has been such a Character since he has lived in the Northern Stiatles, which has to my Knowledge been these Eighteen years as a Married Man — [he] has got a Family of Eight Small Children — God only knows what will be the Consequence of the Testimony of such a Rogue as [undecipherable: Nogel] Loan will be Believed in a Court of Justice. There is not a Man in all the United States who knows Loan, but will say that all his proceedings have always been Roguery, Regardless of fair [undecipherable] things, where on the Other hand any Man of Note or any other person whatever who knows Hubbard or his Family but will say that he is an upright Man. In order to give you some Information of this Man, Hubbard [on] his service, defense of his Country all the Last War, and on the last Expedition against the Western Insurgents, he went out Captain of a Company of Militia, in last Confederation, Regularly, and has always, and ever to this day Support the Credit of an Honest Man — It appears that when [undecipherable: Edson] was likely to be apprehended, he went different times to M^r Hubbard to send or lend him Money in Order to make his Escape — But I cannot prove that M^r Hubbard lent him for some [one?] Dollar [undecipherable] until now him from the [undecipherable: Gaol] is his [Hubbard's] would not send or give it to the Rogue, As you will see by a little enquiry that Hubbard some time past saw that a Man from Georgia Apprehended by the Name of [undecipherable: Lennon] who has mentioned on a public [undecipherable: Tavern] that he had [undecipherable] a Member of [undecipherable: Jury], due to different Letters, and that he had [undecipherable] for some County in Georgia, and after he was taken [I] brought to the Office of [undecipherable] as being a Good [undecipherable] in the Northern [States], there he was held and afterwards [undecipherable] — and he brought a Number of Persons who had been Exhibited by the [undecipherable: Lennon] — at the Weight and this Conspiracy which had been presented by [undecipherable: Lennon] were he believed [undecipherable] Night Office, and on their [undecipherable: Commendation] Lennon was discharged, and afterward Lennon mentioned that he was determined to be Revenged on Hubbard by some means or other — And there is not the least doubt but Loan & Lennon have made use of that [undecipherable], and no man is more [undecipherable] whether it is [undecipherable] other Person [undecipherable] — His [Loan's?] [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable] Hubbard the Family to listen, he was determined to Ruin Hubbard the Family further he was the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] of Loan [undecipherable] is not [undecipherable] ended, for he has at this time [undecipherable] but rather [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] which we now intend to [undecipherable] However to be [undecipherable] may [undecipherable] to this Honor [undecipherable] Hubbard I am sure he is not guilty [undecipherable] — He is a Gentleman of honor, the former Member of [undecipherable: Assembly], and to be [undecipherable] Member of [undecipherable: County] — [undecipherable] of the Respectable Citizens [undecipherable] — But at the [undecipherable] mentioned before, if the Oath of such a Hired [undecipherable: Villain] will bear any Weight on this [undecipherable] there must inevitably be the Result of this [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] Right [undecipherable: Honest] Man is also of his poor and unhappy Family, [undecipherable] Young or they are. N.B. Do not wish to have my name in full to this Letter [undecipherable] to you [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — And [undecipherable] would or some have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable]. [Address panel: John [undecipherable] Esq^r / Comp[troller?] Trea[surer?] [undecipherable] / America]