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Letter from Ebenezer Hazard to Richard Caswell
Hazard, Ebenezer, 1744-1817
May 13, 1777
Volume 11, Page 471

EBEN HASARD TO GOV. CASWELL.
[From Executive Letter Book.]

Philadelphia, May 13th, 1777.

May it please your Excellency:

Congress having directed that a copy of their Resolve of yesterday, relating to the Post Office, should be transmitted to the Legislature of each of the United States; I take the liberty of enclosing one to your Excellency, and requesting that it may be laid before the Assembly of the State of North Carolina, at their first session after the receipt of it.

I am Your Excellency's most obedient
and very huml. serv't.,
EBEN HASARD.
Surveyor General of the Post office.
His Excellency Richard Caswell Esquire.