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Dear Sir ー We have here the Malancholy News of a Defeat of General Montgomery at Quebec, tho' we are not Certain of the Truth of it yet think it our Duty to send Men not only to get Intelligence ourselves but that the Situation of Affairs in Canada may be known at Head Quarters & the quickest way to March from Cambridge to Canada... nothing new here only four Vessels taken from England by Capn Manly and another Privateer,

Jacob Bayley, by Order of
the Committees of Haverhill and Newbury ー