I wrote to your Excellency by the way of the back Country upon my hearing of your Arrival and sent a Duplicate of it by Cape Fear to which I refer you. But as we have no post yet established betwixt this Province and Charles Town, we can have no Dependance of conveying any Letters to your Government but by Expresses, which is very expensive to both Provinces. 

Having recd. by an Express from Govr. Dinwiddie some Dispatches to this Government, with Dispatches for you, as Mr. Glenn is now no longer Governor and also to Governor Reynolds of Georgia, the Express being paid so far, they came by Colo. Webb who desired me to dispatch them to you, I have sent them on Express to Cape Fear with Directions to Mr. Ferys who proposes taking upon him to convey Letters by the Post from Cape Fear to Charles Town, and then there will be a Post established from your Province to New York and to Boston, provided he can get £50 Sterling from your Assembly annually to assist him in carrying it on this Assembly having granted £75 Sterling to carry it on from Suffolk in Virginia to Cape Fear, he proposes petitioning your Assembly to that purpose, if your Excellency will countenance it and approve of it; and as I think it will be very much for the publick Service, I recommend it to you. Lord Loudon is arrived at New York with the Troops &c. and I expect they will immediately enter upon Action, Colo. Webb who commanded 'till he arrived having ordered all the Troops to march from New York as soon as he arrived. I find from England we are in pain for Port Mahone, the French were to sail to attack it the Beginning of April. I shall be pleased to hear from you as any thing material happens, and to know what is doing with the Cherokees.

I am with great Esteem

Sir

Your Excellency's

most obedient and

most humble Servant

2d July 1756