Revd Sir,
The clergy still continue destitute of any legal encouragement, in North Carolina, the assembly, were to have met at Wilmington the 14th of this inst but yesterday I received information that on the 20th there was not a sufficient number of members then arrived to make a house & that it was the current opinion there would be no session of Assembly this winter, Wilmington is not at all central, but a remote part of the Province, where 'tis quite inconvenient for the majority of the assembly-men to attend & our Govr is too infirm to meet them at any other place. In short the Province is in great confusion for want of the seat of government being fixed & the approaching dissolution of the Governor, presents us with a gloomy prospect, upon his decease I expect that old quarrels will be renewed old grievances repeated & the whole Province disunited & divided into the old Parties of North & South. The Benevolence of the Society therefore is the only support of the Clergy, at Present & I am afraid will continue so to be for a considerable time—