Yours of the
9th of July I received sometime 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 so much
Money am not and it is likely never Shall be, as I am obliged
in conscience to profess the Religion called
Sandeman; the preach=
ing of which is
not attended with Profit in the
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 persuaded that had you allowed 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 Butlers, 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 'til I returned in the Spring, that
I hired an Interpreter most of this Time; had
Jacob Fowlers
Board to pay for most of it and many other thing for him, as
I have an Account of £9 0s 2d which I paid and run in Debt
for him in four Months Time; had
Calvin or
Moses
likewise
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
York Money in Debt which was in fact the case. My principal
Debts were
William Sabers, my Landlord H
[illegible]ch
[illegible]mans, my Interpreter
Capt Butlers and Capt.
[illegible][guess: Kanynes], which amounted
to above £70.
Beside
these owed a Number of little Debts, a particular
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 Butler was if I dont
mistake
£8
York Money and had £5
Lawful Money 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 called and still call a discovery,
my expenses were something extraordinary upon that ac=
count, perhaps more than the circumstances 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 difficulty from that Quarter. Am now too-much
out of humor with the World and too much
engaged in
something
else to prosecute
schemes of that Nature, or that
Invention might Still answer me Some worldly purpose.
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, 'til you have first given me sufficient 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 benefit from it is equal to that of getting
something 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.