I have rubbed along as well as I could without you. We had two Jury causes at Trenton, & there we took up the matter of invalids, there being no determination upon the subject in that district before, the Judges not having the Statute there last term. Mr. Morris was strong in favor & I was not opposing; so we acted as Commissioners, & Sent our certificates accordingly (without making any entry in the book about it) to the Supreme Sec[retar]y at war. At Yorktown but one Jury cause, which was short. There had been depending about Six & twenty actions, but rather than go 90 miles from Phil[adelphi]a. for trial, the parties had settled about twenty of them, one ^was^ tried, as aforesaid, & four continued by agreement to next term, for trial at Philadelphia. There we had nothing to do with the pension list; the like I suppose will be ^the^ case in all places this side the Delaware. We had a tolerable road to York town, but somewhat cut with waggons a considerable part of the way, but worse on our return by reason of some rains which fell. Some excellent inns on that road. Two Indictments were found at Yorktown, one for an insult upon one of the foreign ministers by serving process upon his servant for a debt of ^ab[ou]t^5s/ — the other for a riotous assault of about 50 persons, in disguise, upon an inspector’s office, in the western part of pennsylvania.

Mrs. Cushing is with me now, on the route to Dover, a fine road South of Phil[adelphi]a.—

I am in strong hopes of the pleasure of seeing you soon, & that your health is fully restored, as I heard of your riding abroad sometime ago.— I hear of causes to be tried in Maryland, & in Virginia, of above a hundred, which will require ^both^ your Sedateness & Sagacity. At the same time I would not have ^you risk^ your health for a thousand of them.

I me[an to go] from Easton in Maryland for Kent [Isle], & thence across the Chesapeak, an 8 or 9 mile ferry, to Annapolis,— ^then^ to the fœderal city, perhaps buy a house lot there, & so onward to Richmond. Mrs. Cushing joins in the most Sincere regards to you Mrs. Jay & family. I have the honor to be with sincere Respect & esteem, Sir, your most obedt. Servt