[undecipherable] [Docket, upper right:] [Jose]ph Perkins [undecipherable] imber [1799] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Nov. 26 [Address, written sideways:] James [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Esq[r] M[r. undecipherable] November 26 [undecipherable] you Speak of the great[?] [undecipherable] had [un]expected [undecipherable] [t]hird hu[m]ean dis[p]osi[ti]on [undecipherable] ab[i]li[t]es wo[u]ld tend to[wards] [undecipherable] [I] am Sorry to Say I was n[ot] [undecipherable] wo[u]ld be [t]en full to me [th]a[t] [undecipherable] [w]ith I have [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] been [a]ttone[d] as he [s]ai[d] [undecipherable] [in] time con[tro]led all the [undecipherable] [S]oon after his ar [ri]val her[e] [h]e [undecipherable] looked on me with an evil eye and of[undecipherable] of Small. he trave[l] led on the [undecipherable] [t]o come a [G]entleman with him in [undecipherable] me and had as far accomp[l]i[sh]m[ent] as to as o[w]ning Small to bor [r]aise [w]i[tn]ess against me which was [undecipherable] att by the afidavets of sevrall repectable [undecipherable] this how[ever] [undecipherable] he Soon became as great [an] ene[m]y [undecipherable] to me [as] I yet [c]on[cei]ve[d] on him in the [undecipherable] before) tho he then assembled his [undecipherable] not been dec[eive]d he can [ha]ve [undecipherable] [a]mbition and I am the [undecipherable] his way he I believe [undecipherable] out by his ill treat[m]en[t] [undecipherable] no other way to get rid of [undecipherable] and his ma[nner] go hand in [undecipherable] have un[decipherable] my Situ[ation] [undecipherable] an investigation to [t]ake [Plea?] [undecipherable] due respect [undecipherable] obedient Servant Samuel [Hodge?] Joseph Perkin[s]