Dear Sir/

These will Meet you & all our friends I hope in a Much Better Situation then we are in at Present, this Morning we have had About 200 More Soulders from St Augusteen the Remaining part of the Regiment, I have but Little news to Write you & that Not Verry Agreeable to you I Suppose, Every thing here in the Gratest Confusion Imaginable, all our Fighting Men is all Gone off. Pore Thos Mathews is Taken on Board the Man of War, one of our Minuit Men, & four Others this Week, two of the Robinsons A Brother Chip of yours is one of them which I Suppose you know,² they do Say their is Near 1200 Men at Williamsburg & 500 a Suffolk 400 Do a Camps [Kemp's] Landing, & Some at Smithfield & Hampton But What Quanty I Can't Tell. I wish I was with you & all my Family out of the Noise Which shall be Some time this Winter if his Honour will Permit me to Pass,

their is Nothing to be done here now, nor we Can't Collect our Debts, they seem to Laugh at you if you ask for Money now a Days We have had no Late News from England But Expect Every Day some, the Man of War has Distroy'd & Taken all the Amunition in & Near Norfolk, this is all the News I have Please give my Compliments to Mrs Campbell & Mrs Gilchrist & Children, Likewise your Fathers Family all, & I Remain [&c.]