As M'" DeLancey has obtained the refusal of the land from you I have acquainted him with my approbation thereof, and am now proceeding to dispose of it to the best advantage.

In case my proposal has met with your approbation and that the lands shall now sell for a higher price than I offered, I shall notwithstanding transmit you the full sum which they may be disposed of for, after deducting the Quit-rent, and whatsover may be due thereon.

I understand Mr DeLancey that there is a Mortgage on the Land which must be discharged before it can be conveyed. I should therefore be desirous to know, what the amount of the Mortgage is & in whose custody it now remains. -- and as to the rest of your Interest in this Country, as soon as 1 can inform myself thereof I shall not fail to use all possible care & despatch in disposing thereof to the best advantage, happy in every opportunity which offers to convince you of my desire to serve you as well as as to assure you how much I am Madam

Endorsed with all imaginable esteem

Letter to M" Cosby Your Most obed' & most humble Serv* relative to her Lands

Dated Fort Johnson Febx IS'h 1762

798 MANUSCRIPTS OF

MRS. CUMMINS TO SIR W^. JOHNSON.

Schenectady 19 February 1762.

D^ Sir

Your kinil favour of the 11 of last month I should have answered long stnre, but postponed it expecting still, from time, to time, a conclusion of my unhappy affairs, which was not at a period until last friday, tho the ctfects were advertised to be sold by auction, the 28 of last month, nor realy would not now but that I posatively insisted on it, but when it did goe on, M"". lyle exerted his authority to the very utmost its true he left me a bed, for which I'm extreamly oblig'd to him, tho I understand it was at the request of M^ .