It appearing by the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Associates of Dr. Bray of which Society you are a Member that some Years ago, by your Advice, they purchased a Lot of Land in Market St, which Lot being chargeable with Taxes, and no way productive of any advantage in its present State, the Associates have come to a determination of selling part of it upon a perpetual Ground Rent, to which purpose I have wrote by this Opportunity to Mr. Hopkinson. That Gentleman in his last Letter inform’d us that a new Street is to be made near our Lot which will take part of it from us it is hoped that compensation will be made for the Land so taken, your good offices in both these respects the Associates will be very thankful for.

I should be glad to be informed of the present state of the Negroes in your Town, whether a School for the instruction of 30 would be of service to them, and whether a person properly qualified could be procured to Teach them at 12 s. per Ann for each, this being the Sum for which we have then Instructed in other places. I have inclosed Abstracts of our Proceedings for the last year, and a Book which we have prepared to be distributed among the Blacks. The Instructions for the Conversion of the Negroes, being intended for the Inspectors of the Schools and Proprietors of Slaves was by mistake bound up with the other, but is intended to be sent abroad in a separate Tract. I am Your faithful humble Servant