LETTER FROM FREDERICK PHILIPSE III TO HIS WIFE, AUGUST 22, 1776.

New Haven Thursday 22d Aug(t) [1776]

My Dearest

I am Just Arrived at This Place after a verry hot & disagreeable Journey tho
(thank God) am in Good health and spirits Considering all things and Should be
more So was I Assured that that our Seperation did not Affect you So much as I am
Confident it must do tho you Pretend to Say to the Contrary but I intreat you not to
be dejected on my Acct. As I am Concious that I have done nothing (upon the
Strictest Examination) Inimical to the Liberty's of My Country or ever would let the
Consequences be what it will nothing affects more then to be taken up in such an
hostile manner without any Crime brought to my Charge and without a hearing If
this be the Liberty we are Contending for --- but I have done And Shall Say no more
on that Subject. Tomorrow we Shall Set out for Lebanon the Residence of
Governour Trumbull by the way of Middletown, Weathersfield, & Hartford. The
wether Continues Extreamly hot which makes it verry disagreable Travilling we can
only proceed Early & late which makes but Slow riddance we have been verry
Lucky in meeting with Good Entertainment Perticularly good & Clean Lodging to
this place our Company is verry Social and Agreeable -- Tell good M(r.)Babcock
that his brother is verry well his father Came here from westerly and attended him
untill he was perfectly recovered and is returned home I had not the pleasure to See
M(r.) Adam Babcock as he is Set out yesterday for Bedford he has it Seems a vessel
arrived there from the West India's ladned with Rum & Sugar Just now heard that
M(r.) Humphry's is made Adjutant of the Militia at Darby and is Gone Down with
the Regiment to New York who would thought it I am very positive that I should not
have Credited it If a person of veracity had not Informed me of it My Love to sister
Morris M(r.) & M(rs.) Shaw the Children M(r.) & M(rs.) Babcock and all friends
not forgeting Bet I shall not write any more untill I get to Hartford

Adieu my Dearest and with the Greatest
Sincerely your Affec'e Husband FP

Excuse this Scraw for I am in
a room with twenty people
Speaking all at once.