Yours of the
9th of July I received Some Time in Auguſt
and might have come and Seen you but that riding still hurts
me. I am
a little Surpriſed at the Contents conſidering the
Converſation I had with you juſt as I came from your houſe
and Some other Things. am however willing to do the beſt
I can to give Satisfaction. as for being able to pay somuch
Money am not and it is likely never Shall be, as I am obliged
in Conſcience to profeſs the Religion calld
Sandeman; the preach=
ing of which is
not attended with Profit in y
e
Senſe of the
World. am willing rather than trouble myself farther to reſign
up moſt of my Books to you which may perhaps amount to
10
^£^ or 12
^£^, yet am perſwaded that had you alowed me to have
gone in the Service of the Boſton Board when I aſked it, I
Should have been quite clear and conſiderable more.
with Regard to the laſt Sum received at
Capt Buttlers, it ought
to be conſidered that I went up the
June before laſt with
but about 8
^£^ more than I then owed, that I received but
between 3
^£^ and 4
^£^ more till I returned in the Spring, that
I hired an Interpreter moſt of this Time; had
Jacob folowers
Board to pay for moſt of it and many other thing for him, as
I have an Account of 9
^£^..0
s..2
d which I paid and run in Debt
for him in four Months Time; had
Calvin or
Moſes
likewiſe
[illegible]
^moſt of^ the Time to Supply. had a horſe to buy and ride back=
ward and forward with an Interpreter to
fort hunter.
conſidering
theſe things it cant be Strange that I was nigh
80
^£^
Y.M. in Debt which was in fact the caſe. My principle
Debts were
Wm Sabers, my Landlord H
[illegible]ch
[illegible]mans, my Interpreter
Capt Buttlers and Cpt
[illegible][guess: Kanynes], which amounted
to above 70
^£^.
Beſide
theſe owed a Number of little Debts, a perticular
account
of which
^I^ have
not got; but as near as I can now recollect
the whole amounted to 79
^£^
beſide the Charge of my laſt
Journey. The Money I had of
Capt Buttler was if I dont
misſtake
8
^£^
Y. M and had 5
^£^
L.M. when I left you.
I have here given the beſt account I can of my Debts
unleſs I was to make a Journey up the River on purpoſe
With Regard to what I calld and Stil call a Diſcovery,
my Expenſes were somthing extraordinary upon that ac=
count, perhaps more than the Circumſstances of the Affair
will now Seem to vindicate in your Mind; Though had
it
Succeeded as I and others expected I Should have met
with no dificulty from that Quarter. Am now too-much
out of humor with the World and too much
engaged in
somthing
elſe to proſecute
Scheemes of that Nature, or that
Invention might Still anſwer me Some worldly Purppoſe.
am now willing to make known the Affair to you, if
firſt you will engage to make no uſe of it nor to Diſcover
it, till you have firſt given me Sufficent Security that
I Shall receive no more trouble from what you Suppoſe
I owe to
the School. When you have
heard and examined
it you may then determine for yourself whether the
Proſpect of Benifit from it is equal to that of getting
somthing from one who will never have any thing to
pay. If Sir you dont like any of
my propoſals,
pleaſe to inform me what I shall do. In the mean
Time I remain
PS, Will send you as soon as I can
draw them out the Reaſons why I ought
not to be made debtor to
the
School.