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Dear Sir  I wrote you about fourteen days ago. . . . Our Convention are still sitting and we are told very unfix'd in their determinations . . . We have Acctts from the Nonverd of the Arrivall of Six more regiments at Boston and its said Lord Dunmore expects a regiment here, which will only serve to keep us in hot water. the whole Country are much incensd against him and I think not without some reason ー five hundred of the New ris'd Troops are to be Stationd here or in the Nighbourhood ー I find there will be very little done from this place in the export way by the channel of Bermudaー