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Upset by the handling of their affairs in chancery, and the Lord Chancellor's decrees that were prejudicial to his wife's interests. Has been offered a new plantation on the Cooper River within ten miles of Charleston. Describes the plantation in detail. He would purchase it if he believed his wife had enough money. "...you must know that tho a small Plantation may & will maintain a Family very handsomly; so that they shall want for nothing (provided they have Slaves proportionable to manage it w'ch must always be understood) yet it will not raise an Estate in a great many Years, nor then neither, w'thout great Frugality." Notes the profitability of cattle.

Manuscript notes for sermon on Psalm 119: 57. "Thou art my portion, O Lord..." Discusses the difference between good and evil men, with the former desiring after God and spiritual goods and the latter after trivial, temporal things. "My flesh & my heart faileth, but God is ye strength of my heart & my portion for Ever."

Encouragement and spiritual advice to Friends in Scotland to stand together, resist temptations, and to both profess and live the Truth.

Report of Albany Congress with Six Nations and colonial representatives from New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts regarding conflicts with French Indians during King George's War; "the Governor after having Informed the Indians of the french Indians behaviour towards the people of New England he proclaimed Warr [against] them in the name of god and desired the united nation to join..."

Order to the constable of Watertown. Katherine Draper, previously of Dedham, is currently dwelling at the house of Mathew Johnson in Watertown. "...her Circumstances being such that the Selectmen Refuse to accept of her to be an Inhabitant of Said Watertown." Simon Whitney is to warn Katherine Draper "to Depart forthwith out of Watertown and no longer abide therein."

Promissory note for hire of a female slave (one Negrow Wench"), "Nan"

Discusses the purchase of new horses in town and offers to lend Rodney Caesar his horses if necessary. Inquires about his cancer and whether he will "undergo the Operation of cutting."