On the 13th: Ult. I was honoured with your Excellency’s obliging favour of May 30th, with the Copy of that which you were so good to write to Governer Caswell for all which be pleased Sir to accept my grateful thanks.

I am glad that your Excellency forwarded those letters to the Governer; notwithstanding my own Estate was ordered to be restored, as I find by a letter just received from Wilmington that the Debts due to Bridgen & Waller, amounting to about £1000 Sterling, are Still under Confiscation for which there could be [no] better reason than confiscating my own [partic]ular Estate. Now my kind good Friend if you should chance to see any of the Delegates of that State or any other person of Consequence, a word in Favour of Bridgen & Waller from your Excellency will have great weight as I learn it had in my own particular case.

Indeed Sir I have always had a partiallity to any and every thing which flowed from your Pen; in consequnce of which so very interesting a paper which you were so good to inclose me I thought might have its use here, so with the advice of my good friend his Excellency Mr. Adams I have taken the liberty to put your Essay in the General Advertiser with an Introduction and your Excellency’s Name to it by way of giving it more Authority, and also I have inserted it in the Gentlemans Magazine for all which I hope your goodness will excuse or reprove me if I have erred.

Bundle up Sir the best wishes of your best Friends and they will nearly convey those of Dear Sir Your Excellency’s Faithful Obliged and affectionate