By the favour of Mr De Neauviel at Amsterdam I hope this may reach your Excellency in order to lay my Case before you. I presume you might have been inform’d of a Family of eight people leaving England the 23d August 78 designing for America but if not though have Reccomendations to your Excellency as well as Many Other Eminent Persons in America. I have found it Hitherto Impracticable to get there though the Most desireable [place] to me & Family Under Heaven Myself being born Under a good King [has] at All times fill’d them with Notions of Freedom that Nothing but death [can] Extirpate These principles was the governing principles of as Valuable a Father as Any in England. These are his Sons & Sons Sons I would hope these Sentiments will raise your Excellences Assistance in Order to Convey us to my so much desir’d Country where Shall Carry with me Several Branches of Business but One perhaps the Most Valuable that ever was hit on for any Country it being A discovery I have Made in Holland & for which England France [and] Spain has Offer’d Ten Thousand pound Each But these powers Shall [never?] reap any Benifit from the discovery of it from me provided your Excellency will Vouchafe Us a Conveyence And I do Assure your Excellency that no Business in the World Could conduce so Much to America’s Trade & Interest. I am now at Haarlem in Holland where I hardly think my self Safe for a gentleman with whom I [enter’d] into partnership in the Carpet Business haveing told me he Made ten Experiments a day for ten years. I enter’d on Experiments myself & so far Succeeded & so foolish as to Show him what had done Since which as he Never come within a possibility of Success he has Under pretentce told me he is not able to Carry on the Carpet Business So that his Money being Sunk & what I had gone with it. He is Now trying every cruel Art he is Master of to Famish me & Family into a Discovery of what as been the Attempt of Europe for Century’s but has Never Succeeded with any person my Self Excepted. If therefore Your Excellency thinks me worthy of Notice your Answer pointing out a Safer place of Abode than where I now am it would Secure the Most Valuable Trade for America & perhaps the person of Your Excellency’s Most Devoted Humble Servant