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May it pleas your Honour, with the deepest sense of Gratitude and thanks, we Approach you acknowledgeing your pious design and charitable Donation in assisting us in our Difficulty. and now we Humbly pray your Honour to Inform us By a Letter to Mr. Robinson whether you Have Reciv'd them orders from Home or not. moreover we would Inform your Honour that we Have us'd ye utmost of our skill, to Enlighten those of our Tribe that acted against us and have Been successful in a Good degree: for they have mainly seen their Error, and are Hartily united with us. we are all Harty and well, and Our Tribe in one sense Increases very fast, and in another Decreas for our Land is sold so that many of our yong men are obliged to go to sea and so are Lost so that our most promising young men ar often Laid in a waterry Tomb to our Lamentation may it pleas your Honour we Esteem you as our Best friend and do allways pray that you may Be assisted By our Dear Savour in all your proseeding[s] and finally Recive a crown of Glory that shall Never fade. we are Ever Bound to acknowledge ourselves your most obedient and very Humble servants untill Death
Sign'd in Behalf of the
Tribe pr Tobias Shadick
Charlestown October
ye 14th Day [ ] 1765 |