Interest on the Above Mortgage for 11 years & 3 *

months5pct 372--9--4 /

Str. 1034-12--4 Advance a 80 p cent « 827-13-10

1862-6-2

JE7660-- 8-- 94 1762 -- ^ Augt 1 Ballance over paid Miss Grace Cosby By Mess Oliver Delancey. James Jauncy. Gold Banyar & Peter Remsen 1150--8--9

Interest due from Augut 1st 1762 to Octob. 15th 1768 is 6 years 2months& 14Daysa5p cent 356-12--7

±•1507--1--4

VJ«J MANUSCRIPTS OF

.^IR W^^^ JOHNSON TO LOKD HILLSBOROUGH.

Johnson-hall Feby 15th. 1769,

Mv Lord,

Since my last of Dec'" 23*^. N". 6, I have had the honor to receive your Lordships Letters N°. 6, in answer to mine N^. 2, containing his Majesties Commands that I should make out some certain estimate of what I thought the Department might require in order to the determining whether any greater Sum should be allowed than that recommended by the board of Trade, and that in the mean time the Annual Expence should not Exceed that Sum, -- The first is already done as 1 long since transmitted a short Estimate for that purpose to Gen^ Gage who informs me that the same is now before his Majesty, The second is in part and will very soon be entirely complied with by the Total removal of the Commissaries and all other officers of the Department at the out posts & Frontiers -- but as on the first receipt of the Plan for the reform It was Judged most adviseable by the General and myselfthat the Provinces should have some little time to consider in what manner they should carry that part relating to Trade into Execution as the Withdrawing those officers abruptly without any to supply their places would beyond all doubt have proved of very ill Consequence, it was not till the rec* of your Lordsiiips Letter of the 12*^''.