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Dear Sir:

I wrote you about a fortnight or perhaps a week ago and have nothing new at present to Communicate. The Army still remain in winter Quarters at Valley Forge well Hutted; I hear their houses

or Huts are very warm and comfortable. I send you the last Paper containing the King's Speech &c. Jackey is not yet sent to me. The weather has been very bad, the Snow now very thick upon the Ground. As soon as this weather clears up, I expect to have him with me agreeable to Mr. Mitchel's promise.

What has been done about Fortifying Cape Fear River? I fear nothing at all. Mr. Hooper and McLain are unpardonable in not writing to me. I have been laid up with the Gout for a week past. I shall write you more at large in my next. I wish you would send on your Bills, not that I shall have occasion to use them, since our Assembly have made so generous an allowance to their Delegates. But remember that I warn you that Delays are Dangerous. I am Dr. Sir

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