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