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. I this morning saw M'" Johnson

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& Captain Johnson they were So Good as to promise to call on me were it in my Power I should on Your account do them every Sei vice, be assured that I am Dear Sir

Your True Friend & Most Humble Servant To William Johnson Bar* Oliver DeLancey.

SIR W. JOHNSON TO THE HON: MRS. COSBY.

Johnson-hall March 12th. 1765.

Madam

The very Extraordinary & inconceivable trouble which the Duty of my Office has Engaged me in for these 3 or 4 months, in pa. ticular, & in fact Ever since last Spring has necessarily prevented me from Writing to you for some time past.

M^ DeLancey has lately wrote me that on a Survey made of the Tract which he bought & which was Computed to be f 1,000 acrjs it proved but 18000 so that a Deficiency remains of 3000, wh'ch Computed at 5-8 NY (\irr. an acre amounts to the sura of £856:5:0 Curr. which with the Quit rents due, the money he has paid & an allowance made to the Ind^, with the principle and Inurest due on the Mortgage to the late S'^ Peter Warren inc uding a debt also due to his Estate from the late Heny : Cosby Es''". for rent on a Lease of Turtle bay which Debt is secured (ht says) & protected by the Mortgage make the whole sum am'. to ;'016. 17.2^ that the sum to be paid you was only ^8500. on a s ipposition therefore that he is to pay the Quit rents, Mortgage, & /)ebt on Lease there will be a ballance due to him from you of . 21516. 17. 2| he has therefore applied to me m y^ most pressing mai'Jier to represent the hardships it is to himself and partners & to i-equest you would settle with Lady Warren & pay oft" the prmcipal & Interest due on the Mortgage as also the Debt on the Lerse which is thereby secured & must be discharged (if required) when the Money due on the Mortgage is paid, all which I must recommend to your Consideration.