Montreal Octor 19th 1775.
Dear Sir,
I know your Goodness will pardon the Trouble I am giving & likely to give You, the Necessity of the Day will plead my Excuse, Will You take the Trouble to forward the inclosed Letters they are of Consequence to me, as well as to those to whom they are addressed.
I shall also take Leave to inform You that Mr John Orillat a French Gentleman of this Town for whom I have great Regard, & with whom I have extensive Commercial Concerns is now a Prisoner with the Rebels, by which his Family & Property suffer much. Will you my good Sir do me the kind Office to get him exchanged if possible, supply his Wants & return him to his Family & You will thereby render the most acceptable Service to Dear Sir [&c.]
Brook Watson
N B the last Letter from Mr Orillat was Dated Ticonderoga 29th Septr 1775 I hope to sail for London in ten Days
B W
1. An intercepted letter, enclosed in Schuyler to Hancock, November 18, 1775; Papers CC (Letters of Major General Philip Schuyler), 153, I, 302, NA.
