Peter Jay to David Peloquin, 15 May 1764

[Rye] 1764 May 15

I have receiv–€™d your favour of the 2 d . 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, und r . such Restrictions as will greatly impede the lower Class of the People from Creep g : in the Profession, w ch : 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, w ch . he is at Liberty to attend every Sessions for his improvem t :, 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 1 st . 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 y r : 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