John Hanson to Thomas Sim Lee

I am honored With your Excellencys letter of the 1st, be pleased to accept my thanks for the friendly manner in which your Excellency has been pleased to Express your Concern on acct. of my late Illness. I thank God I am now pretty well recovered and hope by Wednesday next to be able to attend Congress.

I Shall pay Mr. Carroll 28.4.2 and the remainder of the 117.3.2 recd for Mr Rogers will be ready whenever Mr Stuart Calls for it. I wish Mr Worthington would send for his Carriage. The maker begins to Murmur And thinks it hard he Should lye out of his money £160.

Your Excellency Some time Ago was so Obliging as to offer to procure for me that part of my Account Against the Public which is to be paid off in red money, or Certificates, or not paid at all untill the State of our Finances will admit of it. Altho there must be a Considerable loss in receiving the red money, yet I greatly prefer that to Certificates or to waiting till it Can be paid in hard money. As it is not in my power to render An Account on Oath till my return home, not having a State of the Account with me, And as I understand it is usual to draw on Account where the Ballance due from the Public has not been asscertained, I must request your Excellency to receive for me on Account the sum of four hundred pounds in red money And Keep it by you ’till I call for it. You may be assured the Sum I ask for is short of what is due me.

From the Debates in the Hond Parliament, it is pretty evident they are heartly tired of the American War, but untill they withdraw their Troops, or we Can dispossess them of the ports they hold here (N York and Charles Town) I Shall have very little hopes of peace.

Have inclosed you the last paper, And wishing you health and happiness am with the highest esteem and regard, Your Excellencys most Obedient Servant,

John Hanson