[Extract]
P.S. [to letter of June 25]

A constant guard is kept in Williamsburg relieved every day from the adjacent Counties, and that place is become a Garrison, the pretence of which is the Security of the Person of their Speaker who because he has been Chairman of the [Continental] Congress, it is reported, in order to inflame, that Government is anxious to Seize him²  Guards likewise Continually mount at the Town of York opposite to which the Men of War lie, and thro'out the whole Country the greatest attention is paid to these Military preparations and an universal appearance of War is put on.

I just now learn that the People have laid hold of the keeper of the Magazine, who had been appointed by me, and that they have thrown him into Prison

I am &c.