which we propos’d, it would take near
30 days more before we could get
home, & that our circumstances as to
money was not in the way, for we
had plenty. He said he had
left home on public business expect-
ing to return in 50 or 60 days, & it
had taken him near a year before
he had gotten back, & that he had
found it his duty to sacrifice pri-
vate conveniency to public good,
& he would have us to do so too. we
let him know the business we came
about appear’d to be agreeably settled
to both their & our minds, that the
other business was something we knew
nothing of until since among them
that we would have been willing to
have sat with them in council,
tho’ did not know we could be of