[Address: Major General [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / at [undecipherable] in [undecipherable]] [Endorsement: From [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Aug[undecipherable]] Charleston 18^th August 179[undecipherable] Dear Sir This will be handed to you by Cap^t Gadsden he goes to the Northward for his health— I Write [undecipherable] you last month wherein I acquainted you I had honoured your [undecipherable] bill Upon [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] you not Draw upon me for whatever [undecipherable: Sums] you might want for me [undecipherable: My] Children and those bills I had of [undecipherable] being Protested must have obliged you to advance a Considerable Sum for me which I am Sorry for I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am Under[undecipherable] Obligations to you than I Ever was to any other Man in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and I Ever shall [undecipherable] a Greatfull Sense of your great [undecipherable] I beg you will Draw upon me So as always to have money in your hands— I hope to have the Pleasure to See you the Next [undecipherable] Shall but be in a bad State [of] I [undecipherable: hope] for you M^rs Lincoln and all your [undecipherable: families] [undecipherable: to be] well— I have Not had a letter from Charles these [undecipherable] months I am very [undecipherable] to hear where he [undecipherable: is] and how he Comes on [in] his Education also I have Not had a letter from Jack [undecipherable] [undecipherable] months. Pleas Desire them to Write to me Every month at Least— we had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Untill the Middle of June Since which we [undecipherable] had So much Rain that a gooddeal of Damage [undecipherable] Done [undecipherable] Cotton [undecipherable] and Congress [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] to make a good Crop— M^rs Ferguson Joines me in best Respects to you and M^rs Lincoln and him D^r S^r yours [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Jno Ferguson]