Sir:

This will be handed you by my friend David Ingram, who waits on you with some news from Genl. Rutherford's Camps. I am sorry that I have it not in my power to wait on you before your departure, as I could have wished to come nearer a conclusion on the Back country, when will you please write to those two Gentlemen in my behalf and I will attend in Person this evening. I shall dispatch an express to Newbern for money, as I have not another left, in hope that your Excellency will dispatch him.