can you please write a essay only 10 sentences the directions are it must include a proper heading such as dear and a proper closing the date must be july 4 1776 you must use the talk of the time and write a letter to someone explaining the reasons why you are fighting for the other side as well as your experience in war please have it done by sunday xoxo good luck feel free to ask any questions you may have.
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Over time inter-colonial communication became more important to settlers. As the colonies solidified and Crown-appointed governors began to be accepted as colonial leaders, the British government realized that it needed a reliable method of mail delivery for communication between its colonial officials. The Internal Colonial Postal Union, which later became the British Colonial Post, was formed in 1693 to fill this function. For the most part the ICPU carried official and commercial mail until around the 1740s, the colonists still being more concerned with relatives in Europe than they were with each other. This predilection began to change over the next several decades as the colonies grew, fought in the French and Indian War, and slowly developed a common dislike of British domination. Benjamin Franklin, appointed joint Postmaster General with William Hunter in 1753, was dismissed from his position in 1774 because of his revolutionary activities. Alongside Hunter, Franklin had essentially reorganized the British Colonial Post, making it functional and even profitable, so when the British turned him out the Continental Congress immediately selected Franklin as Postmaster General for the newly formed United Colonies Post (later to become the United States Postal Service).
Despite the drastic improvements Franklin made in the colonial postal system, sending letters through the mail was still prohibitively expensive. Ordinary citizens usually couldn’t afford to mail a letter through the official post. They might try sending letters by way of an acquaintance traveling near the letters’ destination, but for the most part most American colonists sent very few letters in their lifetimes, averaging at one letter received per person per year. Expensive postage was only part of the reason for this dearth. Another significant factor was that illiteracy was not uncommon among the colonists, or throughout England and Western Europe, for that matter. While basic reading skills were considered important for all children to learn, so that they could read the Holy Scriptures, many American adults either never acquired the skill or forgot what little they had known. The literacy rate among women, for example, was 55% in the late 1700s, and only that high because mothers were expected to be able to give their children moral instruction by referencing the Bible. If sending news by letter became imperative, literate persons like the town doctor or minister could often be found to read the letter to its illiterate recipients, but such a course of action was so cumbersome to arrange that most colonists rarely sent letters at all.
Almost all of the mail that came through the United Colonies Post, therefore, was sent by a select group of wealthy, upper-class citizens who could both afford the postage rates and be assured that the recipients of their letters were educated enough to read them. These were the same citizens, by virtue of their social standing more than their education, who fell naturally into the positions of governmental leadership in the colonies and in the new nation. These merchants and public figures (and sometimes their wives) had to transact all of their non-local business through the mail, and so kept the Post in continuous action. During the Revolutionary years unofficial messengers were used to communicate among the colonial troops and Revolutionary leaders, but the daily merchant transactions still had to be done, so the colonial post continued operating. Relief from exorbitant postage charges wouldn’t come until 1851, when stamp fees were lowered to three cents per letter.
Most businessmen kept up extensive correspondences during and after the Revolution simply to maintain their basic operations. In the days when writing letters was the only way to pass a message over many miles, merchants and purveyors of various services saw their perpetual letter-writing as the continuation of conversations they would like to be having in person, the vouchsafing of transactions upon which they built their businesses. To that end, a lot of letter-writing from colonial times until the advent of quicker means of communication was simply business mail--notes of receipt of this product, questions regarding the sale of that one. With the political figures of the day, however, the case is somewhat different. Prominent political figures used letter writing to communicate strategies to their allies. Secret letters, often written in code, were sent between commanders of the troops in order to synchronize movements during the Revolutionary War. Often the letters they sent back and forth (through trusted private messengers) were of high political importance, outlining strategies for winning the war and, later, public elections. It is not unusual to find "Burn this letter" scrawled across the bottom of such clandestine missives, leading modern readers to wonder why this command was so often ignored.