It gives me a very sensible Pleasure to hear of your safe Return to America and I beg leave to congratulate You on an Event so happy and interesting both to Yourself and Country.

I do myself the Honor, Sir, to transmit to you the enclosed Letter from Doctr. Shuttleworth: You will find on the Perusal of it that our Confiscation Laws have taken from him a very considerable Property and that he intends to apply to the General Assembly at their next Session for some Compensation or a Restoration of what yet remains unsold and not disposed of or appropriated by the State. As he rests his Expectations of Success on the Generosity and Liberality of the Assembly, it will be necessary for him to produce all the Proofs he can of his attachment to America and her Cause during the Revolution: If he is right in what he states to have pass’d with You at Plassy I think it material Evidence for him and your Authenticution of it will have very considerable Influence with our Legislature.

I have a particular Regard and Friendship for the Doctor and shall be highly obliged by your Compliance with this Request. I have the Honor to be with great Regard and Esteem your most obedient and humble Servant