Sirー

Your Letter of the 12th Instant, with the Commissions &c. directed to our General Assembly are received and will be laid before them 2 ー likewise another of the 17th with the Enclosure for Comodore Hopkins ー after Perusal I immediately sealed and forwarded it agreeable to Direction ー I wrote to Mr [Nathaniel] Shaw to furnish me with Intelligence that I might Act agreeable to.the Spirit of the Resolves of Congress ー enclosed is Copy of his Letter & Enclosure to me Fortifying the Harbour o'f New London and securing the Navigation of the Sound to the Colonies, are Objects which demand the most serious & early Attention ー I am, with great Truth and Regard, Sir [&c.]

Jon th Tru~bull