Sir:
Pursuant to a Letter from your Excellency Directed to the Coroner of Halifax County there has been an inquest held on the body of Mikel Quinn & the Jury reports that he was Murdered by the Guard by order of Colo. William Linton.
Inclosed you have a Return of the Stores now in my Care belonging to the Public in the Quarter Master's Department by Which you Will discover our want of Lead, & hope you Will use your Enfluence With the Assembly to furnish that Article as Soon as Possible. There is a considerable quantity in the Palace at Newbern which I think had better be Taken than the Army to Want it or by any Other means that it Can be procured Speedily. I would thank you for a line of the latest Intelligence.