[Baltimore] 4 [April, 1775]
[Extract]
You will find long ere this as your son Jos2 did not receive a letter from you as soon as he Expected that he was dispatched without loss of time & we hope to your Satisfaction & we think that he was only two weeks here . . . We wish Sincerely that matters were settled between England & this Continent & from the last accts we have Reason to hope a tum to our advantage however all well wishers to this Continent here are preparing for the worst. Yet I am sorry to say we have A Number of Professed Tories & Still a Greater Number that will not say which Side the[y] are off. Yet I think more than the half are in favour of the Measures we are Entered Into (that is them that avows them Publickly) & we suppose on the whole we have three Fourths on our Side. boath Publick & private & we have Reason to think the Province in General are friends, save the Scotch & a few that the[y] can Influence
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.
2. Joseph Titcomb, master of the sloop Cumberland, sailed for Falmouth, in the Province of Maine, on February 14, 1775, with a cargo of 450 bushels of corn, 230 barrels of flour, fifty barrels of bread, and two tons of bar iron.
