You may truely be surprized at the Receipt of a Letter from a Stranger (a person in a remote Corner in England a Country with which you have been at War and one who is not ambitious of aspiring above the humble Rank of a ploughman. I have often of late had a great Desire to write to you, and as often suppress’d it for which I compared my own Insignificancy with your justly admired Abilities, and exalted Station I though I shou’d be deemed a Fool and a Madman. But, Sir, your well known Humanity, and liberal Sentiments, and the Want of Satisfactory Information which I cou’d wish to obtain relative to America have at last induced me to take up the Resolution of Queen Esther, and shou’d I like her obtain my Request I wou’d esteem it the greatest Favour ever conferred upon me. I have always been an Advocate for equal and universal Liberty, consequently one of that Rebellious Creu who wish’d well to the Americans in the late noble Strugle that Contest being ended through the Blessing of providence, and to your imortal Honour. I wish Nothing more adrently than to become a Citizen amongst you. But the late Accounts from America relative to the Treatment of the Loyalists (though I’m not surprised at that) that the English indiscriminately will suffer the same Fate, and that there is Nothing but Anarchy and Confusion amongst the Americans themselves furnish my Friends with fresh Arguments to disuade my from going: what better Treatment, say they, do you expet, how will they know you were a Friend to them &c &c. As I look upon these Accounts to be greatly exaggerated, if at all true, they have made very little Impression upon me, but when a good Oppinion is once entertained, it is possible one may be a little partial, and shou’d I dispose of my small landed property here (which before the War wou’d have sold for £2000) and emigrated to America with my Wife and Family (we have been married six years) and there meet with the dismal Reception which is painted out to us, the mortification wou’d be inexpressible. If Honoured Sir, from the great national Concerns in which you are engaged, you cou’d spare a few Moments, and condesend to give me the necessary Information for so great an undertaking (for I thought of going next Spring and shou’d be preparing for it) and inform em how Land sells &c. If the Accounts prove favourable, it wou’d have a great tendency to reconcile my Wife (whose Timourousness is one Reason for my presuming to trouble you in this manner) confer the greatest Obligation upon me, and perhaps the only and best Return I may ever be able to make shall be my fervent prayers for your present and future Wellfare. I am Honoured Sir your most obedient and humble Servant.