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Yours of the 12^th of Feb^ry I received Nov^r y^e 23,^d but not the
practiques which I [illegible] when I can learn M^r Nasmiths Abode
Any person You will recommend, Shall have my best Advice
and Asistance

I cannot by this, return You Such an
Answer as I desfire; Business, & the Distance between M^r—
Spotswood & Me have prevented my communicating Yours
to Him, When I can, He will partake of the pleasure it
gave Me—I must however tell You, Gov^r Gooch's Affair
is at an End, I [resolved] on a vigourous Defence, and to write
in the present Language of the Worts, to Sally on the Enemy
I undertook to prove Gen^l Spotswood had disbursed the publick
Money for the Governments, Service; and that, Gooch had
not; I summoned Evidences to that purpose, & to shew I was
determined not tamely to give up the Young Gentlemans inte-
rest: The consequence was, the gov^rs dismissing his Suit, &
submitting to pay [blot]—Miss Katharine was in August
1744 married to [M^r] Bernard Moore a Young Gentleman
of fortune here and Your Namesake John Spotswood
married about a moneth ago, to Miss, Mary Danderidge Daughter
of W^m Danderidge, Com^r of his Majesties Ship Ludlow Castle
and by the Mother a descendant of L^d Delawares family
in England—I could have wished M^r Spotswood had seen
more of the World before Matrimony sed Diis ahter versum est
I Shall by means of my friend & Neigbour, M^r Andrew
Anderson, ^{be able to} gratify You in many particulars by which
I Shall do my Self a singlar pleasure, as it will as it will give
Me the opportunity of declaring the Respect with which

Received this 7^th Febry being on a
Friday on my way into Edinb^r 1746