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Letter from Henry Eustace McCulloh to Wills Hill, Marquis of Downshire
McCulloh, Henry Eustace, d. ca. 1810
July 18, 1770
Volume 08, Page 220

[B. P. R. O. No. Carolina. B. T. Vol. 16.]
Letter from Henry E. McCulloh to Earl Hillsborough

18th July 1770.

My Lord,

I am to intreat Your Lordship to obtain for me, His Majesty's gracious acceptance of a resignation of my seat as a member of Council for his Province of North Carolina. Permit me very humbly & truly to add, that I shall ever retain the most grateful sense of the honor conferred upon me by my appointment to the said Office, & that my only motive for resigning is, that as I do not intend to return soon to Carolina, I am not in a Situation to discharge the Duties of it

I have the honor &ca
HENRY E. McCULLOH.