[Newburyport, September 15]
[Extract]
Having received orders from his Excellency General Washington to march with the above detachment, I set out on Friday morning, the 15th of September from Cambridge; dined at Salem, where I procured two hundred pounds of ginger, and engaged a teamster to transport that and two hundred and seventy blankets, received from the Committee of Safety, by order of Major [Thomas] Mifflin, Quartermaster-General, to Newburyport, where I arrived at ten o'clock the same evening.
1. Sparks Mss. No. 52, vol. II, HU. The journal from the above date to and including September 26, 1775 is in the hand of Arnold's secretary, Eleazer Oswald.
