Sir,
The Sieur Closen, who will have the honour to deliver this to you intends undertaking a Settlement in Province of North Carolina, and having applied to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations for a recommendation of him to you for a Grant of Lands, I am directed by their Lordships to desire you will make him a Grant of such a quantity as shall be proportioned to the number of persons in his Family conformable to the directions of his Majesty's instructions in such a part of the Province as he shall think will best answer the Objects he has in view.