Dear Sir
I write you last, by Capt Williams who Saild, about three weeks, as there has been no Arrivalls from your Island, I am Still without any Acctts from my famely, of whose wellfare I am very Solicitous to hear; ー
I can not give you any more news from this than Mrs Campbell & Fanny will Communicate to you ー The Situation of this Town is really precarious, Nothing less is talkd of by the Warm Patriots than destroying it, for fear it Should fall in to Lord Dunmore's hands, who I am told, momently expects, four or five hundred Men Should they arrive its imagind he will take immediate possestion at any rate property here is very insecure, Most of the Inhabitants have removed their effects, as they are equally allarmed, at the regulars or Provincialls being Masters of it. Our reguler Provincial Troops are I am told rised but, they meet with a good deal of Difficulty in rising Minute Men. if Matters are not Soon Accomodated, this will be a very disagreable Country to live in & I am determined tho I know my Interest will Suffer greatly to remove my Self this winter, and Hope to eat My Christmas Dinner with you. ー
There is papers from England down to the 2d of August, there are five thousand Men more coming out & fifty Sail of Men of War, to be on the American Station and from all Accounts they mean to Inforce their Supremecy over the Colonys; On the other hand there is no Doubt but it was agitated in Congress to through [throw] of[f] their dependance on Great Brittain. ー Nothing Material from the Norward, but what a few Papers I have inclosd will give you ー You See our Press is Stopt by an Arbitrary Actt of Lord Dunmores, & of Coarse you loos your Norfolk Paper, but As his Lordship we hear intends to publish one Soon its to be hoped he will Supply Holts former Customers ー2
I must again intreat you to have an Eye over Archies Education and See that he applys Closely My warmest respects to your father & famely & all friends & I am Dr Sir [&c.]
P.S. Should have write Billy Hall but I imagine he is by this time of[f] the Island
