Gentlemen

We beg leave to refer you to what we have already written by this bearer ー Your favour of the 12th reached us last night & we heartily thank you for the advices contained in it ー time will not permit us to be very particular in our reply & it is the less needful as three members from this Board will wait on you by order of our provincial Congress within forty eight hours after you receive this. ー from these Gentlemen you will receive repeated assurances of our Resolution to persevere in measures for our mutual defence & protection, we must & do expect a good deal of rough work from the Men of War very Soon & we also must & do resolve to make them Suitable returns & although we may Suffer many losses & be driven to great inconveniences yet we have no doubt of getting through & rising with advantage.

We blush for Governor [James] Wright's perfidy, & could wish that the Member of your Honourable House may be brought to think that it will be now no more than fair reprisal to enlarge a Secret for the benefit, perhaps the Salvation, of both our Colonies & the preservation of many Lives ー

By order of the Council of Safety

Arch. Bullock Esqr. for the Honble. provincial Congress Savannah