438 HENRY LAURENS [1766. 



Mine and Mrs. Lamboll's best compliments to jour good 

 mother, and self, concludes me, sir, 



Your most obedient, humble servant, 



Thomas Lamboll. 



HENRY LAURENS* TO JOHN BARTRAM. 



Charleston, S. C, 9th August, 1766. 



Sir : 



I have had the pleasure of hearing, from some of our acquaint- 

 ance here, that you were safely arrived in Philadelphia, but that 

 good news has been somewhat abated by Captain Eastwick's 

 account, that you were very sick, when he left that city. I hope 

 soon to know, from your own hand, that you are recovered, and as 

 well re-established as we poor brittle clay-shells can expect to be, 

 at threescore and ten. 



Since you left Carolina, I have prosecuted my long-intended 

 voyage and journey through the southern parts of this country, 

 and Georgia, to East Florida ; and was near five weeks in the last- 

 mentioned province ; in which time I thrice visited the River St. 

 John, often landed upon each shore, exploring the swamps and 

 hummocks, pine barrens, and sand barrens, between the great lake 

 and the ocean ; and you may be sure I did not carelessly pass by 

 your son's habitation. I called upon him twice ; and as a confir- 

 mation of it, you will find inclosed in this, a letter from him, wrote 

 after my second visit. 



Your knowledge of that country, together with the addition of 

 Mr. William Bartram's remarks upon his further experience, 



* Henry Laurens, of South Carolina, -was born in the year 1723. His manly 

 virtues, together with his services and sufferings during our Revolutionary 

 struggle, have rendered his name and memory dear to every American patriot. 

 Having presided in the Provincial Congress of Carolina, and succeeded John 

 Hancock as President of the Continental Congress, and undergone a tedious and 

 cruel imprisonment in the Tower of London, he finally had the honour to be one 

 of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of peace, which sanctioned our 

 national independence. He was, moreover, the father of the gallant Colonel 

 John Laurens, one of the last, and bravest, of the martyrs to American liberty : 

 and of Martha Laurens Ramsay, one of the most gifted, pious, and exemplary 

 ladies of the age in which she lived. Henry Laurens died at Charleston, in the 

 year 1792, aged 09. 



