Charles Town 6th March 1776.
Dear Sir.ー
The Inclosed Letter is from our Congress which Mr Drayton Sent here last Night in answer to yours which I laid before the Congress yesterday Morning -I have paid your several expresses the following sums to enable them as they pretend to pay their expences on our Road.
£25. to Rodolph Strohacker & Jenkin Davis ー £ 12,, to Thomas Herman & a further Sum about £ 18,, ー for Expences himself & Horse during the time he was detained in Charles Townー
I ardently wish to learn the arrival of our Militia at Savanna & that you have been enabled to oppose the landing of Troops.ー
I am with great regard [&c.]
1. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, IV, 198, 199.