The post brought me yours of May 6th and 9th. You express apprehensions
that we may be driven from this city. We have no such apprehensions
here. Howe is unable to do anything but by stealth. Washington is strong
enough to keep Howe where he is.
How could it happen that you should have L5 counterfeit New Hampshire
money? Can't you recollect who you had it of? Let me entreat you not to
take a shilling of any but Continental money or Massachusetts, and be
very careful of that. There is a counterfeit Continental bill abroad,
sent out of New York, but it will deceive none but fools, for it is
copper-plate, easily detected, miserably done.