solicitude our ignorance of your
situation has considerably augm-
ented, not having received any
information from you since your
Letter of 11th mo 15th last, which
was the second we have received
since Joshua Sharpless and
John Pierce left you.

We are desirous that you may
be supported under any discou-
ragements which may present
owing to the interruption that
we apprehend has happened
to our Corrispondence; and that
you may be enabled to persevere in the
cause we are mutually engaged,
in which so arduous a part has
fallen to your Lott, a cause
which the more we are engaged
in