Give me leave with the new year to renew to you my sentiments of respect, and to wish you health, and private happiness in the publick prosperity of America. I should be happy if you would think me an object, capable of assisting so noble a cause as that of liberty; in any capacity to which my abilities are equal, I should gladly serve. I have many years sought an opportunity of being useful to America, but a combination of unhappy unmeritted circumstances deprived me of the completion of my wishes, and have kept me in such distress, that life has been to me a continual burthen, always in a state of want, or in the necessity of creating debts to satisfy the urgent calls of nature. Such is my present state if I might dare to ask of you some humane benevolent aid, M. Turgot would be so good as to remit it to me.

I have the honour to be with the greatest respect Sir, your most obedient humble Servant