It is some time since, I requested the favour of Mr. Jona Williams to write you for an Order, Pass, or some kind of paper in my favour, to enable me to obtain a passage to America on board the Frigatte Alliance; which Mr Williams judged with me was a Necessary & regular application, but he has received no Answer.8

There are other Vessells going to America, in which I can take a passage, but as I have for a long time been in a bad State of Health, I think the Alliance most to be preferr’d, as there is a Doctr. on board, which the other ships have not, & I possibly may be in great want of one, without which, I may prehaps suffer, altho I have the greatest reason to think the Sea air will be of infinite Service to me.

Mr John Williams who intended going in the Alliance, has alter’d his plan & is going to Carolina,9 his Birth on board her, will be therefore Vacant, and if your Excellency will do me the favour, to expedite me a paper of the kind, you will infinitely oblige him, who has the Honor to be Your Excellencys Most obedt. & Very Humble Servant