Hond: and dear Sir! Boston Goal Wednesday July 2d. 1777

Permit an unhappy Man once favoured with your friendship to solicit your assistance towards his release from a long and fatal Confinement: Worn to the dreggs by protracted & accumulated distresses, unless you favour him wth. liberty, you deprive him of life: Surely Sir! if I have erred I have suffered sufficiently for my Indiscretion; a disposition to injure my Country never approached my bosom. Thro’ the generous application of Capt. McKenzie who was a Spectator of my distress Wretchedness here I am furnished wth. hopes of Liberation on Terms beneficial to the Publick. Let me intreat You to promote my Wishes, let me intreat You to preserve my Life, give me the Consolation still to find I possess your friendship, for whom I early entertained and shall forever preserve the warmest Esteem. I am Hond. Sir Yr. much distressed and most obedient Humble Servt.,

Benja. Church Junr.

RC ; addressed: “To The Honble. Robert Treat Paine Esqr. Present”; endorsed.