Sir

Mr Livingston Arived here on Saturday and !mediately Communicatd to us Your Letters desireg us to purchase a Quantity of powder ² &c, we Accordingly made a particular Inquiery how much of that Article is now in this Province, & find there is not, nor has there been any since last April but what has been in the hands of the Committe here, of which we send an Account Inclosed, whereby it appears that there is now in the Public Store 63501 which with what is due from the Continent to this Province, is all the Stock they have, 462 Quartr Casks was all the Powder that was brought from Curacoa, tho' it was said that it was to the Amo of 300 Bbls & that Several Other Vessels which Arived About the same time had Also brought Powder which was without foundation. ー a report prevails Here that a Fleet of 18 Transports 3 Ships of War & a Bomb Ketch have Saild from Boston that Genl [Charles] Lee has desired Govr Trumbal to Gett 1500 Men in Readiness with all dispatch, that he intended to March with a small body of Men from Cambridge to Connecticut & with the Troops to be raised in Conecticut to March to this place, but as it is probable You have Information from the Genl it will be Needless for us to Enlarge.

The Asia & Phenix are both in this harbour, and the Viper at Sandy Hook ³

We are Sr [&c.]