I am Favoured with Yours of y^ 5^^ Instant Your Proposal in Regard to the Purchase of M''^ Cosbys Land I should without Hesitation have Join'd in but as I am to be in Partnership with three other Persons in it in Equal Shares I have to Ask tliat instead of your holding half youd Consent to Take one quarter or at most one Third and I will oblige myself to Pay you the Proportion of the Remainder as soon as the Purchase is made I press this the more Ernestly as those Concerned with me are very intent to Offer a Larger sum could they Accomplish it, according to their First Design Your Answer I shall hope soon.

I have not heard from Lady Warren about any Business since I wrote Her about your Bonds as to the Deed I will Deliver it to any Person you* Please to Order As I dont think it safe to send it in the Common Way I shall be Obliged to You for any Papers You have Relative to S^" Peters Lands, And will give you a Lease of Seven Years for Mills Lott You Permitting the Man who is Already on to Live there as he is You' let me know what you Propose to Give for the Yearly Rent I am with sincerity

^ D^ Sir Your most Obedient Humble Sert To Sir William Johnson Bar* Oliver DeLancey

married to Lady Warr^ins Daughter. When the father of these, Augustus Fitzroy Died, Lady Fitzroy married James Jeffries Esqr Commissioner of Customcs. The present Lady Fitzroy is daughter to Sir Harry Liddnl, now Ld Ravcnsworth. MSS.