Cosbys Lands and that from the Present Circumstances You Value Her share at Six Thousand Pounds Currency Though I am Obliged to You for Your Hint That I might Expect it for Less if no Person should offer that Price Yet to put an End to further Treaty, about it and that I may not be Disapointed in what I am Pretty fan- Engaged I will Give the Six Thousand Pounds which I think the full Value and pay You the Money as soon as the Proper Conveyance Can be Dra\STi for Which End You will send down to some Person You Can trust here the Necessary Papers to form them by.

I am one of the Commissioners for Adjusting General Shirleys Accounts but they are only the Articles Comprehended in his Agents Accounts of Which that You Send down is no Part but as I understand the Gen^i. proposes paying all such Dem&nds on the

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 803

Crown During that Command I shall take Care to Forward Yours among the rest I am with Great Regard D"^. Sir

Your Most Obedient Humble Ser*. Oliver DeLancey To Sr. William Johnson Bar*.

SIR W^ JOHNSON TO THE HONO^^e q^^q^ cOSBY.

New York 13. July 1762. Madam

I am to acquaint you that I have sold to M^" Oliver DeLancey your part in the Manor of Cosby, for ^66,000 Currency, and two Thousand Acres, which lyes on the South side of the Mohawk River between Fort Hunter, and Schenectady, for j£500, Currency, of which he has paid me the Sum of four thousand Pounds Currency and passed his Bond for the remaining two thousand five hundred Pounds, which sum he is to pay on demand, without Interest, provided you discharge the Mortgage and Quit Rent which it is encumbered with ; if said incumbrance is to be paid here, I will, as soon as I can learn how much it is, settle it with M' DeLancey, and remit you the overplus if any there should be.