[Extract]
The person that commanded the sloop [Enterprise] on Lake Champlain has left here.2 It is more than probable that I shall not be able to procure at Ticonderoga such a person as I should wish to command her. I entreat you therefore to send me with all possible dispatch a person fit to confer such an important command upon. You will please to transmit me an account of the agreement you may enter into with him.
Albany, July 11th, 1775.
1. N.Y. Prov. Cong., II, 11.
2. Captain John Prout Sloan; see muster roll, July 1, 1775.
