Autograph letter signed, to an unidentified recipient, 1788 May 5.

Concerning questions and an affidavit related to a lawsuit against a Mr. Hart; lamenting "the political State of your County, & feel very sensible for those on whom the whole weight of Indian Cruelty will fall, in a causeless(?) manner. Particularly I feel for you, who I understand are more exposed than most of your Fellow Citizens; but I am led to hope that Mathews & Pickens will accomplish pacific measures & lay the Foundation for permanent so sanguine a Mind as that Subject, as I should, were our federal Government established there must be a [illegible] of Union thro' which, & from which, the pure blood of the States, must flow, or the Body in general will languish, & the Limbs fall to decay. Be pleased to fill up the Commission with the Names of your Commissioners & return it by the 27 Instant; asking, in a postscript, if he would tell him "what Bisset says about our Negroes."