the Black Horse where there is to be a Grand Supper next Monday being the princes Birthday according to Mr Bradfords Acct in opposition to which there is to be an other at Tods on Tuesday being the princes Birthday according the English Acct They are happy that have the least to doe on either side, My wife seems to be a good deal better and I hope will be more & more so as the Sun approches, She has not made use of y' medicine being unwilling to change her appothecary Tho' there is still some yellow specks about her eyes But as we doe not know how soon you may be down She proposes to take nothing but old weomens Reciepes till that time There are a pritty many vessells fitting out with provisions for the fleet at Lisbon among others Ja: Graham, Mr Walters made a good Hand of His Bread but His wheat was bad. My wife says She'l write by the next opportunity however that her best wishes will ever attend you as well as those of Dr Doctor

Your country retreat has for some time deprived me of the happiness of your correspondence. Lest peradventure you may be now in Town I could not omit this opportunity of saluting you the hands of my good friend D Clark in his way to Philadelphia. You may remember that some years ago you proposed the forming a sort of Virtuso Society or rather correspondence: We have lately in Boston form'd a Medical Society of which this Gentleman a Member thereof can give you a particular account. We design from time to time to publish some

short pieces; there is now ready for the Press N° 1 with

this Title page.

N° 1

Medical Memoirs

containing

1. A Miscellany Practical Introduction

2. A History of the Dysentry Epidemical in Boston ct. 1734

3. Some accounts of a Gutta Serena in a Young

woman

4. The Anatomical inspection of a Spina Ventosa in the Vertebræ of the Loins in a young man 5. Some Practical comments or remarks on the writtings of Dr Thomas Syderham

Published by a Medical Society in Boston N. Engla

when published I'll take care to transmit you a Copy if you transmit to us any thing servicable in our Design we shall esteem it a great favour. My humble service to Mr Kennedy & family I am

As we believe ye warrants of Survey for some lands at Schorie in y names of Wm Cosby Jun1 Henry Cosby Jn°. Felton & others & another tract at Canajorie in Capt Dick Jn°. Lindesey &c. are in your hands & as Mr Clarke will be so good to inform you particulary the Necessity there is (in case of y Gov" Death) for y⚫ Return of w warrants you have for y. Good of His Familly I dont in

the least doubt of your ready complyance and it will be a particular favour done to M" Cosby & ye Family wch otherwise Contrary to His Excellancys will (if we have not y Patents made out before he should dye) go to his Eldest son so yt ye rest of the Familly will be sufferers by it therefore must once more intreat you to make wt Expedition you can that ye man may come back soon.

Last night the Docters apply'd a costick to yo swelling under the Gov's breast & after Launcing it Some matter appeared but when wth scissors they made y orifice larger there was a discharge of at least a pint & a half of matter and continued discharging greatly all night & this morning and y Gov' much Easier & a vissible alteration for y⚫ better so yt its believed he will do well but as this is an affair of concern to His Familly it was thought proper not to Neglect it

Yesterday this City Express'd a great deal of joy on occasion of the Declaration inclosed, & the Glorious 9 was I Doubt not often drunk in a Bumper, the persons who composed the 9 I have numbered, other three hesitated, one of them Hutchinson, actually followed the nine & went with them tho he did not Speak out in the house, Merrill its Said Spoke privatly that he thought it not Safe to Act Rutgers Said nothing for nor agt in the house, but afterwards upon the Docks I am told he publickly declared his Sentiments that it was Van Dams right to be president which was going further than the Declaration-In the afternoon Mr Clark I hear published another adjournment of the assembly till Tuesday next

what effect that will have we can't tell but think it improbable that he can then make a house because we hear that Platt, Lott, Lecount, Phill: Schuyler, & Vancleek, are all of the Sentiments not to act & as Coll Morris is absent there can remain but 12 more who cant make a house there being 13 & the Speaker necessary to make a house

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From George Clarke.

NEW YORK May the 10th 1736.

Inclosed I Send you a copy of Mr Storke and M❜ Peter Van Brugh Livingston's Address to the Lords of Trade on their petition to his Majesty for a Grant of Lands in the Mohauks Country, whereon I was comanded to Send to their Ldps my opinion and observations at large concerning the petition, particularly whether some part of the Lands be not allready granted to some other persons, whether the Mohock Indians be not Setled on part thereof, and whether the Mohawk Flatts Surrendered by the Mohocks in Trust for themselves be not contained in that Tract petitioned for to enable me to give their Lordships The satisfaction they expect from me, I desire you will look back on the Surveys and returns of Lands granted in the Mohawks Country, and on camparing them with the Description of the Land petitioned for in the Inclosed, That You will inform me, whether any part and how much of these Lands have been allready Granted to any other person and to whom Whether any of the Mohawks are allready Settled on any part of it, and whether the Mohawk Flatts or any part of them be comprehended in the Tract petitioned for

For my own part I can not make out the Tract petitioned for, to be a Tract of about Six Miles Square, as It's called in the Letter which inclosed the petition. I rather think there is an Omission of a line, And that as it is described in the inclosed, It is difficult (to me at least it is) to guess how much Land there maybe within these lines, I don't know what to make of THE SAID NORTHMOST SPRING, nor of what follows, AND FROM THENCE EASTWARD ALONG THE BANKS OF THE SAID RIVER TERMINATING AT CANADA CREEK AFORESAID If you do, Be pleased to explain it to me

If this practice of granting Lands at home prevailes, It will deprive us in a great measure of the meanes to Subsist our familys, and make our Officers of litle vallue, It will Chargrin the Indians to See their Lands granted before they are purchased and discourage people from applying for Grants here, least in the meantime they Should be granted at home, And I think it highly necessary for you, the Attorney Generall and Mr Morris in behalf of my Office to make Some representation on it but this I leave to your consideration

Is not this the same Tract that Collins is now going to lay out and divide in two thousand acre lotts, if it be Collins may go on to finish it and make his return out of hand, for I am perswaded when their Lords know that it has been purchased before Storkes petition was presented and that all the regular Steps have been taken here in order to obtain a Grant and that at a great Expence, they will make a favourable Representation of it to his Majesty, and if a petition be Sent to their Ldps by the persons for whom Collins is now laying out the Land, It may have a GOOD EFFECT, if You approve of it, Be pleased to Send me all the names as they Stand in The Warrant of Survey

You will be pleased likewise to See whether the Lands granted to Butler Miln Scott & Williams be not part of the Lands petitioned for by Stork & Livingston and be as particular as you can that I may give the Lords of Trade a full Information