[undecipherable] [Administrative docket notation: nnign. foste — / 1^st December / No 3— 1790] [Address leaf: M^r John Lee / at E.W. Hodgson's / [undecipherable] stationer / Philadelphia] New Brunswick December 1^st 1790 Sir, I rec[undecipherable: received] yours of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] his answering my application — I have been in-formed [undecipherable] that agreeable to the promise [undecipherable], the [undecipherable] unexpectedly set [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] and York the [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] — the opportunity of going before the vessel [undecipherable] does not fail until Wednesday on account of the late [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to M^r [undecipherable] informing him it would be necessary [to] express the [undecipherable] by immediately — I am Sir your hble Servant [undecipherable: signature] M^r John Lee