We take the Opportunity of a Friend who is going to Paris to forward the Inclos’d Letter, and we beg the favor of you to take some wise Moment to present it to your Worthy Grand Father—It is chiefly to request his Friendship & Recommendation if it is in his Power to some Friend who would Advance us a little Money, & take our Bills on Mr Joseph Wharton and Major William Trust for a small sum of Money the Latter Bond we have here for Two hundred Pounds Sterling, on which there is now five Years Interest due. The money we lent him when he wanted to leave England.—If Mr: Samuel Wharton had taken your Grand father’s advice last year & left us the little Credit we then & now ask for, we should not have been in the disagreeable situation we find our selves at present. He meanly and ungenerously left us behind him, notwithstanding he has much Indebted to us.—He promis’d to write to us, when he reach’d the Seacoast, but he put it off until half an hour [before] the Ship was to Sail, for fear no doubt, that we should have attempted to join him, had we known the ship was to be detain’d until the Month of October.—He had [mail’d] some Money for us from [Hamburg] but he did not give us the whole by 240 Livres, though he knew we had no certain Means of getting any more than what he gave us, which was only 200 in Cash & 350 in a Bill at 6 Months, & for this he detained us so long that our Expences amounted to near 400 Livres—

We got a Friend to speak to Mr. Holker to do the [above] little Business for us but he excus’d himself on the Score of the great Sum of Money he has to bring Home from America, & the great Load of Business, with which his Son is already charg’d.—Thus situated we flatter ourselves that your Grand Father will not take this application amiss, for had we known any other Person as well acquainted with the Parties, we should not upon any Account have troubled him on our private Business.—If he should think proper to favor us with an Answer, we shall be greatly Oblig’d if you will Address it to Monsr: Neave. Chez Monsr. Le Chevalier de Green Gentilhomme Anglais an Chateau de [Bomier] Près des Tostè.—We should be glad to write to America, but being Buried in this Country, we neither know the times or Parts from whence Opportunity’s offer.—Pray is Mr: Ross gone to America.—If Mr. Bancroft is at Passy please to present our Respectfull Compliments.—We hope to be favor’d with a few Lines from you & Remain with due [Respect] sir, your Most Obedt. & Very Hble servants