Sir:
I send your Excellency by Express a packet this day received from my Father, with a request to send it on without delay. My Father informs me the Enemy are landed eight thousand strong at Savannah, and that he expects an active Campaign; doubt not but he hath made you acquainted with particulars. I have enclosed your Excellency a news paper, which, from the scarcity of them, may afford you something novel. Be obliging enough to return it for the perusal of my friends in this neighborhood.
I have promised the Bearer, James Doty, that you will satisfy him for his trouble in riding Express. The difficulty of procuring
men to do public business of this kind hath compelled me to make this promise.