(seq. 51)

He is engaged part of tomorrow upon busniess but will endeavour if possible to wait upon his Excellency "
Pini Plantation Sunday Morning 6th July 1777.
Tho his Excellency
The Honorable Edwd Hay
Governour &c &c of Barbados
The next morning after advising with some friends I waited upon the Governor I sent in a Message to acquaint him that I was come according to his desire, I was desired to walk into his Study [and?] he met me at the door and gave me his Hand and greeted me with great calmness and civility, and asked me to sit and then told me that Captain Lee had brot him some papers which he thot he had no business with and therefore returned ['em which?] he was sorry for; I replied I was very sorry his Excellency had been so angry with Captain Lee for being the bearer which hurt him much and made me very unhappy to have him illtreated upon my [account and?] that if there was any blame, I desired it might be laid upon me and not upon Captain Lee, who had undertaken it to oblige me for I never desired [amo?] to be blamed for [it?] I did; That his Excellency must be too well acquainted with business not to know that proper forms must be Complied with, and that I thought I had paid him a proper Compliment in sending the papers by such a Man as Captain Lee rather than by a Common Man, and therefore hoped he would be no longer angry with Captain Lee, nor endeavour to prejudice him and he promised he would not, he then asked if I had brought the papers, to which I replied in the affirmative, and delivered him the copy (which had been before [dt?] by Captain Lee) which he took from me and likewise the original, which he read, and returned but kept the copy, he then mentioned the affair of my refusing to make [W.?] Adam's a [prisine?] aron, and of his ill treatment of me, [and said?] men were not always the same and perhaps he had taken a [glass?] too much; I answered he had treated me in such a manner that hurt me much as I was upon a Visit, and it was before persons I was almost a stranger to, which induced me to advise with particular friends of abilities that I could depend upon; who advised me to write to his Excellency and give my reasons which I did: and that he had called at my house and approved of those reasons and that [tho.?] every thing was over as he had a few days after behaved to me with his usual politeness, Tho he very soon after treated me again with ill manners of contempt without any cause and when I waited upon him with Comission appointing [M.?] Jordon he treated me with more contempt than I would a servant He [amf?] the affair about Mr. Adams had been settled and that he had removed me for having signed the paper which was signed by freeholders worth [L10] a year for event party's. I told his Excellency that he was mistaken for they were worth L10 a year by Inheritance and L30 by purchase; that I never was a party man, but had signed that paper as free independent citizen which I had a right to do as I [thought?] there was cause for it, and then asked his Excellency if things had not a Melancholy appearance now, being the 7th July and no rain to make our Congress grow and that if it did not please God to bless us with rain, there was the appearance of a famine. I also asked his Excellency; what my signing that paper has to do with being Chief Baron of the [Excheguer?]? He answered the affair had been a long time and was all over with him and asked my pardon and [sayd?] that we all ought to unite for the good of the Island