It would be very punishable if a foreigner, as I, might be molestious to Your Excellency, who remembers him till to his Death the undemerited Grace from which he was a Partaker in arriving here and who acknoledges such Benevolence with the greatest Thankfulness. But Your Excellency may pardon I dare to inform, that I arrived without all other mony than that for Passage, and Providence may be adored that Your Excellency were so gracious to direct my Wishes to Mr. Humfrey, and this Gentleman to Mr. Smidt Esq. who provided me with some Dollars, by which and Your Excellency Grace we live till now. Easily but Your Clemency may consider, that by the greatest Sparingness ever remains a Want of many Necessities in particular at present I intend to lead my yungest Son at Baltimore to a certain Employment in reason of which he must be provided with many Things proper to this Purpose and in this Manner I apply’d my humblest Request to his Excellency Governour Mifflin. This Lord promisses me to do all possible if Your Excellency would be so gracious to direct such a Recommendation to him as Your Grace addressed in reason of mine to Mr. Humpfrey. Then his Excellency would communicate it to other Gentlemen of this City and doubted not that it would be by this Authority from the best Effect. In Hope Your Excellency might agree to this my humblest Wish, I am sure, You will not deny such Benevolence to a poor but honest Man, who never thought, to be so debilitated and who whishes nothing else, than to shew in the future that the strictest Sincerity and not the least Baseness had been the motive, by which he is forc’d to be troublesom, but that he persist’s with the greatest Veneration Your Excellancy most humble and most obedient Servant