[Extract]
p Capt Weeks²

Our publick papers will give us [sic you] a perticuler acct of our troubles here, however you need not [be] Affraid of us Giveing up our libertyes, when all the English troops that is yet Come out, have not Deard to Penetrate one foot into the Country beyond the reach of the Men of Warrs Guns, & tho the[y] drove the Countrey people from Bunkers hill, the English troops were so well Swetted, by Raw Undiciplend men, that the[y] never persued them twenty Steps from the field of battle, and to this day the[y] never gaind one foot more Ground than the[y] did that Day of Engagement, beside they are in want of provisions, whilst the Countrey has an Army of 20,000 Men well Supplyed with all Necessary, from which Circumstances, you Can your Self Judge whether we will tamely give up or not,ー