The business of ye Province sometimes requires me to visit ye
extreme parts of it and I am often obliged to stay at New Castle
ye chief town of ye next Government, and by that means miss many
opportunities of answering my friends' letters, this and having
very little to write that could entertain ye are ye reasons ye have
not heard from me of late. I have had two letters from ye since I
wrote yo last ye 3d of Octb. By letters from Ireland I am informed
two of our relatives are lately dead, viz. _Robert Gookin_, son
of my Uncle Robert, and Augustine Gookin, eldest son of my Uncle
Charles. My own affairs in ye government are very likely to
improve, for ye last assembly who were extremely ye Proprietor's
enemies and against raising money for ye support of Gover'nt, are
every one laid by this election, and such men chosen as I believe
will answer his expectations and mine.
By the packet I have letters from ye Proprietor, wherein he tells
mee he has more friends in this ministry than in ye last, and gives
me fresh assurances of his friend in case he resigns ye government
to ye crown, which he thinks he shall find it his interest to do.
I shall not give ye any account of ye public affairs since ye will
be better informed by ye prints. I shall not add, but only desire
ye will not take my backwardness in writing in an unkind sense, but
believe I have a due regard for all my relations and that I am in a
more particular manner
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Dr Cossn yr very affecte Kinsman
and Servt