As I have written a particularly to Fœdy by this opportunity, it will be unnecessary to repeat in this Letter what is contained in the one to him.1

We have heard

Several Letters I have recd. from Jersey & Philadelphia mention your having been robbed in april last by a number of armed men.2 It is said they behaved with uncommon Respect to You, & with Humanity towards Peter & Nancy— If this be true they at tim deserve Credit for the Manner in which they perpetrated ^executed^ their ^their^ Purposes. The Loss sustained on that occasion must have been ^the more^ severely felt, at a Time when ^as^ the Situation of the Country & your former the other Injuries you ^had^ suffered from the Enemy & ^&^ ^as well^ the Depreciation of the Paper Money rendered it difficult for you to repair it. I thank God however that you lost nothing but Property—your Lives were spared. The I beseech you not to permit an improper Degree of Delicacy to prevent your deriving such Succours from me as you may from Time to Time be convenient— I assure you the Reflection that my absence may be the Means of rendering the Situation of the Family less distressing, makes me more reconciled to it that I otherwise shd. be. You have denied yourself much for the Sake of your Children and I am much mistaken if some of them have not inherited from you Dispositions somewhat similar to that ^those^ of their Parents— Had you been less attentive to my Education, I should not have been as and where I am—Those who plant [near?] Trees, have a Right to expect Fruit, Œconomy will enable me to give you aid, and I assure you will really will oblige me for tho I shall spare no Expence here which public good ^my public character^ ^situation^ may require, yet a Tax upon avoidable Pleasures amusements & Luxuries will produce a little Fund that may & shall be useful to You— In my Letter to Foedy I have been more explicit on this Subject. I am very much embarrassed by not hearing oftner from the Family—but two Letters from Foedy have come to ^my^ Hands & none from James. Fœdy and Peggy wd. do well to enclose ^all or the great part of^ ^many of^ their Letters for us to Kitty Livingston Miss Caty Livingston ^who I believe is at Philadelphia^ from whom we have recd. at least twenty Letters, she informs me ^[at bottom of page] under Cover at the same time to to Mr. Rob. Morris or some other member of Congress in whom Fœdy may have Confidence & who will immediately deliver his Letter to Miss Caty^ The enclosed is a french Letter from Peter—3 My Love to all the family. I am Dr Sir Your dutiful & afft Son