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
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.