The following is the condition of the Royal Governors in America: [William] Tryon quiet on Long Island; [William] Franklin silent at Ambay; [Robert] Edin at Annapolis, a tame spectator of a spirit and virtue he thought had long deserted Englishmen; [John Murray] Dunmore, through fear of punishment, on board the Fowey man of war; his wife and family gone to England; [Josiah] Martin has sent his wife and children to New York, and is himself in Fort Johnson; and Lord William Campbell in the horrors at Charlestown.

Guy Johnson, Superintendant of Indian affairs, fled to Oswego, and all the Tories gone to England, Canada or Halifax for protection.