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Gentlemen,

Though I am sensible your Time just
now, aught not be taken up with any Thing that is not immediately
conclusive to the necessary Measures for restoring Peace and Tran-
quilety between this and the Mother Country and that your pre-
sent. Meeting being not as Representatives for this Colony in General
Assembly, may perhaps in some Measure, render my present
Application to you Fruitless; yet the undoubled usefulness of my
Scheme to this Colony, and the necessity there may be at the Time
to support it induces me to hope for Encouragement.

I am s Stranger in Virginia, but as I mean to settle
in it for life I certainly ought to do every Thing in my Power
to promote every branch of Business that I know and that
can be in any degree useful to so young a Country. I flater
myself to have some knowledge in many Things that might
be of use to it, but the present Scheme which I beg to Leave to
lay before you, and prosessa full knowledge in, is the Art
of making Salt. I have made Trial of it on Queen's Creek.
A sample of the Salt I am ready to produce, but the want of