To the freemen of the Fourth District : My willingness to serve as your representative in Congress has contrary to my expectation drawn on me the animadversions of writers under assumed signatures ... That I have a right though an old man to be willing to serve as your representative and to declare it verbally or otherwise even after Gen. Bayly had inserted his declaration in the papers and written letters of solicitation, his friends cannot deny. - Johnson, Thomas, ([Printed by Thomas Grieves],, 1800)