Dear Sir,

The president informd me that he enclosd you some papers by last post,1 & I was interrupted the moment I
had begun to write you a few lines. I send to Mr Carroll the only paper I have of Freemans Journal of the 21, containing another of Deans
Letters,2 which he is to let you have, & I request you to forward it to my Brother – when you have done with it.

Please to accept my Congratulations on your being reelected Govr. of our State, & to present my Comps. to your Lady.

I request you to present my Comps, to Cols. Lloyd & Plater & their Ladys & to Col. Forrest.

I am with great esteem, yr. Excellencys Affecte & Obt Sev,

Danl. Carroll
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NOTES:

Receiver’s copy, Miscellaneous Folders, New York Public Library.

1 Not found.

2 For the publication of Silas Deane’s “intercepted letters,” see James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, November 13, 1781, note 3.