that the Exchange was so much higher there than at Philadel-
phia, that it would on that account be worth my while but
that I also wanted to see Mr Kilby, that I might be throughly
informed in what manner the Vouchers should be returned to
him for the money advanced, in case our assembly should not
repay him at their next meeting. But Mr Howell showed me
so many good arguments, that if I went to N York and sold
his Bills, it would sink the Exchange there immediately for
Mr Watts's Bills, and that Mr Kilby might be a very consider-
able loser by the fall of Exchange from his doing a generous
action. I told him I would not offer any of the Bills to Sale at
N. York but as that did not seem to make him easy, I assured
him that I would not go to N York at all, but would take
another Opportunity of waiting on Mr Kilby, with which he
seemed satisfied I then told him, that I must carry down
some money to pay the most necessitous of my Creditors, but
that I would only sell a few Bills as the Exchange was so low,
and would leave about £1200 in his hands to procure the
money for me in two months time, as I imagined I could make
the others I owed to easy, when I could assure them of having
their money at a particular day: and as I must pay a Com-
mission to some body, I would choose to throw it into his
hands, and more particularly as I had no acquaintance in
Philadelphia he very candidly told me that he had more Bills
of his own to Sell than he could get money for, and that it
would be more in the power of others to serve me than in his,
and recommended Reese Meridith. I informed him that
formerly I had dealings with Reese Meredith to the value of
about 500 or £600, but that I had never before seen him, but
that I had an invitation to dine with him next day and I would
then leave the Bills with him.
I called next Morning on Mr Howell at his counting house,
and soon after I came in he received Mr Kilbys letter of the
14th of August, which occasioned a great Surprize in us both,
he at first read me some paragraphs and said he had done a
very imprudent thing in paying me the money, which would
forever ruin him with the General and Mr Kilby, and seemed
to lay great Stress on Mr Kilbys saying " that if on the present
Occasion Governor Sharpe can be accomodated with £ 1500 &c
as thinking from the manner of his exprssing himself, that
Mr Kilby threw the whole weight upon him, of doing or not
doing what Mr Kilby himself seemed now averse to, whatever
might have been his sentiments when he wrote to you of the
19 of June, and indeed he seemed in so much Agony and
distress that I sincerely pitied him. We had recourse again
to the Copy of that Letter, and Mr Howell compared it with
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