After so long an absence as since October 1775, when I had the pleasure of your Company at Hartford and Cambridge, when I had the honour of dining with You and his Excellency General Washington &c &c on turtle at Roxbury, and at his Excellency’s house in Cambridge—when you may remember I took the liberty to enquire of your concerning the welfare of your Sister Mrs. Jane Mecom, who formerly lived near the blue hall and afterwards near the orange tree at whose house I lodged when at Boston from the Year 1742 in your honoured Mother’s lifetime until the year 1772, since which except what you told me when at Cambridge as abovesaid, that you intended to go by the way of Greenwich, RhodeIsland, where your Sister then resided and carry her with You to Philadelphia, I have never heard what became of her nor where She now lives, unto this day—notwithstanding all the inquiry I have made by our Delegates to Congress vizt. Mr. Law, Mr. Dyer and Mr. Root, to each of whom I gave particular memorandums for that purpose. I also made enquiry of sundry Gentlemen from Boston, as well the Commissioners from Boston the winter past who were at this place to settle the line between that State and New York, but all to no purpose. I now in gratitude for the many past favors and acts of kindness formerly received from your Sister, when I lodged at her house, as above, embrace this opportunity by my particular good Friend Dr. Johnson, who is appointed and going to the Convention in your City, to beg the favour of your Excellency that you would be so kind as to favour me with a line and therein let me know what is become of your Sister and where She now lives, and if in good health, and also what is become of her family &c. I wish health and Prosperity to You and the Gentlemen that may attend the intended Convention at Philadelphia and hope they will coolly, calmly and dispassionately deliberate on such salutary measures as may and will quiet the minds of these thirteen United States, so that for the future there may be no such convulsions arise in any, as have overspread that of Boston the winter past. I hear from the best information we can learn, the People there have suffered some wrong from their oppressors. You will please to give my Compliments to Mr. Beach and Spouse and may all Health and Happiness attend you in this life—and eternal Happiness in that to come—I have the honour to be Your most Obedient and very Humble Servant

ps. Sir Doctr. Johnson sets off tomorrow morning for Philadelphia. I durst not presume to ask the favor of a line from you until the Convention is over, tho’ a line from you would be gratefully acknowledged at any time, to know how matters go on at Convention; but the great multipolcoty of business you have to go through in your several exalted stations in life will render it doubtful whether I may expect the favor of a line from you until the end ofthe present Convention. I have not yet quite laid aside the New Road from hence to Boston, which may be gone in less than Ninety miles, on which subject I had the honour to receive several letters formerly from you dated Craven Street London and also from Philadelphia. My Friend Dr Johnson will say something to you on the subject of the above road—also concerning my nineteen Townships laid out on the East bank of the Missisippi near the River Yasou &c I am as above