the list except _Mr. Temple_, and to compleat the list, they have added some of the waiters. I never thought ’till very lately that they acted upon any _settled plan_, nor do I now think they have ’till of late; a few, a very few, among us have planned the present measures, and the government has been too weak to subdue their turbulent spirits. Our situation is not rightly known; but it is a matter worthy of the most serious attention. I am with the greatest respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble Servant, ANDᵂ. OLIVER. I shall take proper care to forward your Letter to Mr. Ingersoll. He had received your last. _Boston, 13th February, 1769._ SIR, I have your very obliging favor of the 4th of October. I find myself constrained as well by this letter as by my son and daughter Spooner’s letters since, to render you my most sincere thanks for the very polite notice you have taken of them; and I pray my most respectful compliments to the good lady your mother, whose friendly reception of them at Nonsuch has, I find engaged the warmest esteem and respect--He hath wrote us that he had a prospect of succeeding in the business he went upon; but the last letter we had was from her of the 23d of November, acquainting us that he had been very ill, but was getting better. She writes as a person overcome with a sense of the kindness they had met with, in a place where they were strangers, on this trying occasion. You have heard of the arrival of the King’s troops, the quiet reception they met with among us was not at all surprizing to me.--I am sorry there was any occasion for sending them. From the address of the gentlemen of the council to General Gage, it might be supposed there was none. I have seen a letter from our friend Ingersoll with this paraphrase upon it--“We hope that your Excellency observing with your own eyes _now_ the troops are among us, our peaceable and quiet behaviour, will be convinced that that wicked G----r B----d told a fib in saying, We were not so before they came.”