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I have recommended to you by a separate letter a young man whom I have sent out to assist in investigating the produce of your Country he is hardy & bold his skill in Botany is much beyond what [his appearance promises & he has some smattering in other sciences The Duke has been pleased also to recommend him to your good Offices & I hope & trust he will not prove unworthy of the Patronage I trust you will afford him or disgrace the recommendation I have ventured to give him.
With Capt. King you will receive I hope a considerable supply of Plants likely to be usefull to your growing Colony if the bitter frost which has now vexed us for near a month while the Ship has been out of my reach has not destroyed them You will have Grapes of most of the sorts from whence the valuable wines of Europe are made These I hope will encourage you to Plant Vineyards & some of them surely will produce – marketable wine.
Allow me to recommend the person who has been employed to attend to those Plants & carry them out he has had no pay from Government but has undertaken this task merely on condition of being allowed to go out as a Settler he is an honest hard working industrious & ingenious Lad he wishes to settle as a Market Gardiner & carries out with him a good assortment of Seeds if he pleases you & you can be so good to him as to settle him in some low spot of good land convenient for water carriage to transport his Goods to your Town I think I may venture to promise that he will thrive you will find him honest & trusty so that I hope he may in other matters make himself usefull to you.
I have one more favor to beg of you There are among the Convicts who proceeded in the Hillsborough