by the above Extract you^ see that Lady Warren is made very uneasy by your Relations on Ac* of the Supposed Demand on you I hope you^ write fully on this matter that I may send a copy of your Letter to Her that she may be able to satisfy the Claimants and free Her self from the uneasiness she Labours under from M^ Sterlings soUcitations I have nothing to add but that I always am

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Your most Obed Humble Ser*

Oliver DeLancet. To the Honbi S' William Johnson Bar*

at Johnson Hall Albany

SIR W^. JOHNSON TO OL DELANCEY.

Johnson-hall March 20th 1769. Dear Sir,

I have have had the favor of your Letter of the 26th ulto concerning Abraham Sterlings having Subpoenaed Lady Warren on my account. As to her being at any trouble with regard to any other of my Relations, there certainly is no such thing as they are all too sensible of my own great disappointment from the dispc^tion my Uncle Last made of his fortune, -- Gentlemen still

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living can evidence from his own repeated declarations what he had taught me & indeed what I had reason to expect, as well as Sundry Testimonials under his hand in my posession. -- but all tliis is foreign to the subject Sir Peter Warren most certainly & most assuredly died Considerably in my debt & nothing but a regard to delicacy & connection has hitherto prevented me from Demanding it. I believe every body must allow that the Inspec tion of his Accot against me alone can not determine such a matter, mine against him has already been before Gentlemen of reputation & Character, his own friends, & one of them is still Living. I am ready to prove it on Oath, as well as to Shew that many considerable Articles have not been charged by me which would have made the ballance still more in my favor.