Cambridge January 14, 1776.
[Extract]
I am exceeding sorry to hear, that your little fleet has been shut in by the frost. I hope it has sailed ere this, and given you some proof of the utility of it, and enabled the Congress to bestow a little more attention to the affairs of this army, which suffers exceedingly by their overmuch business, or too little attention to it.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, IV, 240-41.
