I am very willing you should have a Lease of Milr^ Tract as I am certain its being in your possession would much promote its value but as the Term for which it can be Lett is so short as about 5 years when S^ Peters youngest Daughter will be of age and then most Probably it will be sold and you may make the-^ Purchase which I will do you all the good offices in my Power that you have the Preference which from your Connections with the Heirs you are entitled to If you choose so short a Lease you can have it by letting me know, as soon as I do I will execute one.

Your Bonds are in my Possession but as S"" Peter by his will bequeathed to your Family a Legacy of what you should owe him I took advice about the Delivery of them to you and cant with Propriety Deliver them unless your Relations signify their assent when that appears I shall Readily do it for Lady Warren or her Children have no Right in them.

I am obliged to you for your Indian intelligence America is much Indebted to you for its Present Tranquility I Heartily wish this Savage Superintendancy ^vill give you time to See your friends and that you Lived more at your ease.

Your Bretheren of the Council have for some Time Past been closely Employd by the Lieu* Governor who has been using his utmost Efforts to Introduce a new mode of appeal in a manner that would Influence any impartial by Stander that he had the cause more at Heart Than the welfare of the Country or the continuance of the Laws of England in tlie Old & Happy Channel and as the Council Think very much at the Risque of the Liberty of the subject on this Side the Ocean.