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sufficient to injure, if not destroy, so fragile a quality as reputation.

In speaking thus it is proper to add that a single list has not been uttered or entertained against your conduct -- a solicitude that this should continue to be the case -- and a sincere personal esteem for you has dictated this caution.

The discretion entrusted to you is great, an din proportion therefore ought to be yoru anxiety to fulfill the public expectation.

Captain Williamson took charge of a thousand dollars for you but the receipt of which you have to acknowledge.

In future you will write every post even when you may not have any thing material to communicate. Sometimes even negative information coming to the mind of the Executive enables him to combine and draw conclusions important to the public welfare.

You must in future transmit me monthly abstracts of goods and provisions received delivered & remaining on hand -- this is indispensible.

The object directed by Captain Williamson must be performed. I mean the attachment of the person alluded to.

Copies of your letters respecting the apprehensions entertained in your vicinity were transmitted to the Governor of New York. It is for the individuals who compose the Militia to provide arms for the defence of their own rights and comply with the laws. A neglect in this instance is a neglect of a solemn duty for which there is scarcely an excuse. The Legislature of New York has made some provision to supply the deficiency of. Arms to their own Militia and therefore the knowledge of such