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Request for payment for a table and coffin for a deceased Native American; "be plesd to pay to Mr Rogers Richman Sixteen Shillings which is due to me for a table that you had of me … I desire you to tell your wifes father to Send me that twenty Shillings which he promust me for the coffin that i made for the ingon that came to bristol...and dide at toms wigwom..."

Letter offering and requesting information regarding Cleaveland family genealogy.

Travel through the Gulf of Florida is difficult on account of Men of War. Sugar prices are up. In a postscript, Bernard notes that Mr. Kearney has informed him "that they have brought home 3 runaway Negroes, that were taken up in Hispaniola." They are to be held by the sheriff until their masters' demand them.

Order to pay surveyors for work on the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary line.

Regarding the Boston Massacre and trial of British soldiers.

Documents pertinent to the status of Indigenous people of New Spain. Several letters detail the Spanish discovery of California, the reasons behind Spanish exploration, indigenous Californians, the establishment of the California mission system, and the reduction in population of the region’s indigenous people. Some letters also detail the Spanish discovery and settlement in Nayarit and New Mexico. Other topics include the Chichimecas, Indigenous converts to Christianity, mines in Sinaloa, and the formation of Nuevo Santander.

Desire to settle business with Scovell upon arrival in New York.

Hardships caused by the embargo; he has heard that the embrago may not be taken off "in this city…less than one or two years." The American government will have it so that the "the people of this Country shall suffer all the disadvantages of War & not reap...the advantages of peace." Mentions the specifics of a duel, and feels that it is advantageous to settle in the Ohio country.

Regarding a bill introduced to the Assembly "prohibiting the banks of N. York from operating out of New York-the banks in Albany from operating out of Albany-and so on applying the prohibition to the other Banks." Clinton notes the names of men to be proposed for directors of the Mechanic Bank and other appointments. Includes a list of "Auctioneers," naming 30 persons.