Dear General,

We arrived here safe yesterday Evening in your Post Chaise driven by Lewis. I was unwilling to give so much Trouble, and would have borrowed your Sulkey & driven my self; but good Mrs Schuyler insisted on a full Compliance with your Pleasure, as signify'd in your Letter, and I was oblig'd to submit; which I was afterwards very glad of, part of the Road being very Stoney & much gullied, where I should probably have overset & broke my own Bones, all the Skill & Dexterity of Lewis being no more than sufficient. Thro the Influence of your kind Recommendation to the Innkeepers on the Road, we found a great Readiness to supply us with Change of Horses. Accept our Thankful Acknowledgements; they are all the Return we can at present make. ー We congratulate you on the very valuable Prize made at Boston. They threaten us with a mighty Force from England & Germany. I trust that before the End of the Campaign, its Inefficacy will be apparent to all the World, & our Enemies become sick of their Projects, and the Freedom of America be established on the fi[rm]est Foundation, its own Ability to defend it. May God bless & preserve you for all our Sakes, as [well as] for that of your dear Family. Mr. Carrol² joins me in every hearty Wish for Prosperity & Felicity to you & yours. With the highest Esteem & Respect I am, Dear Sir [&c.]