I have recd your letter of the 21 inst. The Evacuation of Ticonderoga is very alarming, I wish it may soon be made appear in a less gloomy light—

hitherto, Fady has not been able to succeed in precuring Wagons to remove Your Books to Kent—

My thoughts have been much imployed of late abot removing from hence in case of need, but the more I consider of it the more I am perplex’d, for my present State of health admits of my undergoing no fatigue, besides I conceive my going to Kent will be attended with an immence expence, for then I can hire no Farm to raise necessaryes for my Numerous Family, but must lodge them in different Houses and buy daily food &ca. for them, I suppose at the same exorbitant rate that is extorted from the distress’d in other parts of the Country, so that unless I can get a Farm in order to raise so much as will in some measure answer the expence of the necessarys of life, I am very apprehensive it will have too great a tendency to our ruin, for we may long continue in our present distress’d situation before a Peace takes place. I am indeed at a loss what steps to take and therefore I could ^wish^ you were nearer at hand to consult with you and Fady what to do. hitherto my present abode appears to me as safe as elsewhere, and it may be most prudent to continue ^here^ till we know what rout the Regulars take & their success if any they have. but in the mean time it may be best to remove some of my most valuable things by way of precaution which ^[wish?]^ we’ll consider of when you come here. If we can purchase another Waggon it shall be done—

Johnny Strang was here abot a fortnight or three weeks ago when it was expectd. the Regulars were abot coming up the River, he then proposed to send a box or two he has of yours at his Fathers to Salem and promised to remove them from there in case of need & said he would be very careful of them—

Nancy is now unwell & Peggy is very sick with ^an^ intermitting fever ever since her return from Albany. I am yr. affectt. Father—