Messrs. Mathew Clarkson & Mr Hillegas (Philadelphia) Gentlemen/ (Per Post Rider) Your letter of the 28th February was deliver'd to me on the 24th Inst and as I have occasion to lodge some Money in your Quarter, 'twill be very agreeable for me to advance the Cash you have requested me to do to Theobald Ent, but I fear, his non-appearance here may prove a balk to us all. ー we have been long looking for the arrival of Capt. [Francis] Proctor & his Company of Artillery Men, of whom we have heard nothing since their departure from your City, and if a worse Fate has not attended them, are fearful they are Stop'd in their way by some one of the British Cruisers now Swarming on the Coasts of North America/ one of which a Tender from the Falcon Man Warr at North Carolina, was a few days since taken by the Comet Briggt of our province, who likewise nearly took a Schooner of the same Gang, but lost her by means of the Night & Shoal Water. Shou'd Ent ever reach this place you may depend on my doing the needful with him for your account, and bargain with him on the lowest Terms I possibly can for the land you have directed ー for Publick News must refer you to the advices gone & going by Authority from Hence, and now Conclude Gentlemen [&c.]