That you may, my dear Sir, be shielded by the Lord of Hosts & protected from all our Enemies & that you may long live to enjoy every Felicity this Life can afford is the ardent wish of yr very affte & mo. If you could by any means contrive to have him supplyed, I will honor your Drafts at Sight. It rests with me to furnish his Pay from time to time, but I really do not know how to do it, at so great a Distance, without your kind Assistance. Recommended from our Convention to your Patronage & Friendship. The young Gentleman, who waits upon you with this, goes

It might be of singular Service to us to receive the earliest Intelligence of any Movement this Way. If Ld D-re 1 can get him here, I am confident he will. Yk will be the object of their Destination, I can’t help suspecting that this Declaration is intended to amuse & lull us into a State of greater Security, being persuaded from Comparison of different Accounts, that his Visit is intended for Virginia. If general Gage should remove his Troops from Boston, tho. A few Troops arrived some time ago & we hear that a Regiment is daily expected from the West Indies. We have too much Reason to apprehend that our Enemies will exert every Effort to annoy us. You will no doubt have heard the distressful Situation this unhappy Country is now in. Were I not apprehensive that I should appear rather late in doing it, I am sure none of your Countrymen could with greater Sincerity congratulate you on your Promotion to the very important & honourable Post you now fill.

Courage by Robert Carter