[Address: Gen^l Hamilton / New York] [Docket: T Sedgwick / 22 Feb. 1799 / Fro[m] Theodore Sedgwick] [pg. 48] Philadelphia 22. Feb^y 1799 Dear Sir In answer to yours of the 19^th The gentlemen from Mass^a have been together, I mean just, as requested I have agreed on the following [undecipherable] the most eligible divisions of that state for the purpose of recruiting on your plan — [undecipherable] a district — from [undecipherable] of Rendezvous Portland, Wiscasset, Augusta & Castine — The Counties of Essex, Suffolk, Bristol, Dukes county and [undecipherable] [strikethrough: undecipherable] Barnstable & Plymouth a district. [undecipherable] places of rendezvous [undecipherable: Haverhill?] Newbury[port], Salem, Boston, Plymouth, [undecipherable: Taunton?] and Bridge[water?] [undecipherable] Middlesex, Norfolk & Worcester a district — [undecipherable] places of rendezvous [undecipherable], [undecipherable: Watertown?] [undecipherable: Petersham?], [undecipherable: Worcester?] & [undecipherable: Dedham?] — [undecipherable: Hampshire?] & [undecipherable: Berkshire?] a district — [undecipherable] places of rendezvous [undecipherable: Pittsfield?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Springfield — [undecipherable] presumed that it was not intended to mark the exact limits of each subdivision as this could not be done without an enumeration of all the towns in the State. [undecipherable] also expedient to be done, it may be [p. 4] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] — I have seen as far as they are in the office of the Sec^y of State M^r Murray's communications relative to the intercourse between him and Pickering — Part of his letters have been immediately [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable: President?] — As far as [undecipherable] have seen there is no evidence of integrity [undecipherable] of wisdom — the details I have not time to enable [undecipherable] to read — This [is] one of the misfortunes to [undecipherable] we are subjected by the wild & irregular plans of a vain jealous, and half [undecipherable] mind that we are obliged to practise an [undecipherable] of correct principle[s] [undecipherable] direct communication between the Pres[iden]t. I am to [undecipherable] to watch on him to [undecipherable] an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & the committee upon his nomination — The obj[ects?] are to induce him to alter it, and [undecipherable] him prefer [undecipherable] an individual to [undecipherable] a man [undecipherable] the principles on which the negotiation as it [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the terms with[in] which it shall be [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] I am told & from good authority he has [undecipherable] opinions. If they are [undecipherable] against the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that is not the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] circumstance conforming of the [undecipherable] [pg. 49] [undecipherable] of human nature is that he has [undecipherable] declared that he believed the message would add to the federal energies of the legislature. I am most sincerely yours — Theodore Sedgwick