Wonder if any c18 history 🗃️ friends might be able to help decipher some handwriting. I'm looking at a diary of a rather mature Yale undergrad (he's 22 in 1788) in which he mentions reading a "journal" of someone's "letters." The names are a bit unclear. This is followed by a blacked-out paragraph.

It looks like Messrs Jacob? And John Henshaw’s Letters

Found Joseph Henshaw's probate inventory in Middletown, CT, 1787 on Ancestry.comlibrary.usi.edu/record/679090

Joseph & Jonathan Henshaw?

Would love to make out the names of whose journal/letters he's been reading! He refers to them letters "sent home" from "poor young men" and "in eternity cut off amidst the greatest hopes and most promising expectations." Date of this entry is Nov. 1788. 🗃️