[draft] Although I am fully convinced from enquiry that the money on the first proposition cannot be obtained in America yet the probability is in favor of its being obtained in Holland France or England - and it is also probably that Mr Danl Parker & Mr Gouvenueur Morris & the Marquis de la Fayette may be from an affection to the memory of the Genl Greene [may?] be engaged to undertake the business - But it will be necessary in the first instance to obtain a fain appraisement assessment of the estates and negroes, proposed to be mortgaged - The assessment to be made by respectable persons on oath - to be authenticated [2] with the usual solemenites [sic], and to have the states & signatures of the Governors thereunto affixed - and also a legal attestation that the said property is free from any incumbrances - If in addition to these circumstances the persons loan the money could be invested with the possession of the estates under certain conditions to be devised by Mr Rutledge it would most probably assure a facility to the loan - [3] This plan has [been] approved by Mr Rutledge and the documents obtained by Mr Rutledge and Judge Pendleton [struck: being] [inserted: Duplicates thereof] should immediately be transmitted to Danl Parker, who should be the ostensible agent, under the patronage of the Marquis de [la] Fayette and Gouverneur Morris No risque of any unfairness would be run as the negociation ought to be made on the following principles - The person being found willing to loan the money on the security Mr Parker should exhibit, the completion of the transaction should be transfered to America - The Agent of the [4] Lender should received the mortgages of Mrs Greene & the other executors, and he should at the same time empower them to draw on the principal for the sum to loaned - [docket] To Mrs. Greene New York Octr. 27th 1789