I have receiv’d your favour of the 2d. feb: together with the Magazines per the Minerva.—My last was the 24 December,1 and since which our Lawyers have dissolved their Contract, and engaged in another, undr. such Restrictions as will greatly impede the lower Class of the People from Creepg: in the Profession, wch: they say, was their intention by the first.—this has enabled me to place my Son, agreeable to his own choice and much to my own liking, with a gentleman Eminent in the Profession,2 with whom he’ll not only get perfectly acquainted with the Business of an Attorney and the Practice of our Courts, wch. he is at Liberty to attend every Sessions for his improvemt:, but he is also to Study the Law in a Regular manner under his Tuition, so that he will now have every necessary advantage to qualify him for the Profession.—he is to begin the 1st. June of next month, after the passing his Degrees in our College, where he has prosecuted his Studyes very much to his Credit—As you’ve been at great pains to get a Place for my Son in your City, I must now give you my thanks for yr: kind endeavours to serve me.

it gives me pleasure that you was well, and that my Cousins your Sisters were getting ^better^ of the Colds they had been troubled with, we beg our sincere regards may be acceptable to you & them. My Evey is not yet quite so well as I would wish. She is now among her kind Relations in Town—My self and the rest of my Family are middling well—I Sincerely am