you must know I left Philadelphia for the most pure motives I knowed that the houses of york and Lancaster disputed for power and was afraid that trifling circumstancee might throw us in to the arms of England or some serious divison of the states might take place I had an opinion your getting into be President of the U-S. would heal all parties and things would go right I can remenber [all?] the circumstancee of the1 Revolution War and was present in the church Market Street Philadelphia the Sunday following that the Congress whent in a body to invoke the Throne of Grace 17762 to aid the peopl of the States in there independance and I must say that the British fleet on Lake Ere would never would have been captured but through me and afterward I pointed out the capture of other fleet and other importan occurrances that took place through the War of 1812