Pardon the boldness I take in addressing those lines to your Excellency, as been not known by you, but knowing your humanity & good carrector towards mankind, has induced me to trouble you with this incoled its for a Son whom I have had [?] me this 13 or 14 years, & from whom I have had no news [?] having married a Second time, & been left a widow, [?]thing considerable, having no body left in the world but [?]ns of hearing wither he is Still in being, so that I [?] my affairs accordingly, should esteem it as a great [?]ou would please to order the inclosed to be sent to the [?]t, by the way you may judge proper, as having wrote [?] letters to the Continent, some by the way of France, Holland, [?] the West Indies, as also by Government dispatches, [?] not only attended with troubling friends, & great [?]t am likewise sorry to say fruitless, Relying on your [?] hoping you will take it in consideration, towards [?] poor disconsolated widow, for want of hearing from [?]m she loves so dearly shall for ever pray, for the well-[?] Excellency & remain with respect your Excellency’s Most humble & most Obedient Servant