Your Excellency will do me a very essential Service if you will be pleased to inform His Excellency William Paca Esqr. our Governor that when I had the honor of a conversation with you at Plassy in June 1782 relative to my own affairs and those of Mr. Harford I told you it was my intention to serve in the army of the united States in the line of my Profession; and that, at my request, you gave me a letter to Genl: Washington for permission to pass his lines, with my family, in consideration of the great expence it would have been to bring it round thro’ France. I hope your Excellency enjoys good Health, and I am with the utmost respect your Excellency’s much obliged and very Humble Servant