Sir your favour of the 8^th is before me — thank you for the promised attention to the letter for Longham — The Certificate shall be immediately forwarded and if endorsed in evidence, the Amount shall be remitted to you, or held subject to your order as you direct. The Election as it respects the Governor is over gone — In the City Rep has a handsome Majority notwith standing the dispersed situation of our inhabitants — Our City Officers all came in with handsome Majorities — in the County it was, as we expected other wise — but we have been shamefully treated by york and Lancaster — had they [strikethrough: acted] voted as they engage the Election would have been sure — We must submit and have no undoubted it to fear that the State is Ruined, or Democratie which is the same thing We all remain well — our Citizens are rendring in, under the [undecipherable: faction] of Captain [undecipherable: Procter] adieu yours very sincerely Samuel Hodgdon Major Isaac Craig —