Sir, I should but ill deserve the generous treatment Your Excellency has been pleased to shew me had I not gratitude to acknowledge so great a favor ー I cannot ascribe any part of it to my own merit but must impute the whole to the philanthropy and humane disposition that so truly characterizes General Washington ー Be so obliging therefore to accept of the only return in my power that of my most gratefull thanks and be assured my conduct shall bear so strictly in unison with that of the Gentleman so as at all times to secure to myself the Honor I now embrace of subscribing myself ー With great respect ー Your Excellency's [&c.]

Fearfull I should encroach on Your Excellency's time I have declined giving You a detail of the continued distress and persecution that has attended me since I had the Honor of taking leave ー I have made my Friend Major [John Gizzard] Frazer partly acquainted with it and requested him to watch a convenient opportunity ー