Dear Sir

Since my last of the 24th I have engaged a passage in a large English built Snow that is bound to London & will sail so soon as to deprive me of the pleasure of Visting you ere she departs. She is the only Vessel here at present or that probably will be bound to Engd ere the 10th Sept that can be recommended and will leave this in zibout Eight days which prevents me waiting on you, as the opportunities of going up & coming down the River by Water is uncertain & a Journey by land I cannot endure  I wrote you that the Man of War had fired 2 or 3 nights ago about 18 or 20 cannon into the Town some loaded with Grape shot & some with 18 lb & 24 lb balls which only injured 2 or 3 men ー dislocated a chimney or two ー made cavities in some of the Houses and disconcerted the inhabitants, who have been moveing for these two or three days with their effects, as they expected a second edition of Capt [George] Vandeputs politeness who is writing Letters to the Mayor relative to it ー it was owing to the people's removing the Cannon from the Battery by the permission of the Provincial Congress, contrary to the edicts of the Continental Congressー

our Sloop is arrived and I believe I shall obtain 7/4 for the wheat ー the Flaxseed I must return as it cannot be sold & nothing in this Town is deemed safe ー nay altho' your Pig:Iron cannot be destroyed it may perhaps be Safier at the mannor than be involved in the general ruin of the Town which may be the case next winter ー I'm in haste your affect son