Monday 25. [September 1775]
Dispatch'd the three Companies of Rifliers with 45 days Provisions under command of Captain [Daniel] Morgan, as an advanc'd party, with orders to proceed to the great carrying place & to cut a road over to the Dead River ー About 3 oClock. P.M. Lieutenant Gray arrivd with a number of Manifestos, & a Letter from Colo Read.
1. John Hancock Papers, III, 312, LC.
