The Packet being detain’d two or three Days on the following Occasion, tho’ I had wrote four Days ago, all that was then necessary, I could not dispence with writing again; And notwithstanding you will doubtless hear it, if I had not wrote: It pleased God to take our Governor Sir Henry Moore, Bart. out of this World, Yesterday half after 3 o’Clock in the Afternoon; he died of a Bloody Flux: and laid a great while very low, tho’ on Monday Morning he seemed better than for some Time before, but it was only a little lightning before Death. He is to be buried this Afternoon. Tis said Old Mr. Colden will administer the Government again, he is at Flushing, but expected here this Day: He is but weakly and infirm, and Judge Horsmanden, the first Councillor lies almost dying also. I had the same Flux a Fortnight ago but it is gone off in a Fit of the Gout: so that the manifold Infirmities that accompany me, induces me to think I ought to persevere in laying down the Custom-House Office, which I only Wait to hear from you.
The Government of this Colony is esteemed the most lucrative of any on the Continent, exclusive of Virginia. I Would you had Interest and Inclination to procure it for yourself: A few years in it, would be of more Emolument to you, than any Thing you have yet had. I wish for your own Sake only, that could be the Case; far be it from me, to have any other View in this Wish. And as Wishing is all the Ability I have, I can only add, that I am as ever Your most obliged Servant