Camp near St Johns Septr 28th 1775.
[Extract]
Since my last of the 24th we have ー opened a Battery of two twelve pounders, upon the Ship yards & Schooner ー She was obliged immediately to haul near the warf, or rather as near the north end of the Fort as she could go ー This Battery is screened from the guns of the Fort by an Epaulment in a good measures.
1. Papers CC (Letters of Major General Philip Schuyler), 153, I, 206, NA.
