Gentlm Yours of Yesterday directed to the Earl of Stirling Came Express, 5 oClock, and as My Lord was Set of[f] in the Morning with a party of Men as Supposed in order to Take the Vessel & went by the way of Perth Amboy: the Comm[ittee] imedeately Met & Concluded to Send three Boats with a hundred men well Armed to assist in Takeing Said Vessel; this Resolution with the Letter from your Committee we sent Express at 7 oClock to My Lord, and the 100 [men] well Equipt Set of[f] in the Boats About [12] oClock, & hope on there Return will be able to give a good Account of the Vessel.
We are Gentle [&c.] by Order of the Committee.
Robert Ogden, Chairman
[Elizabethtown] Jany 23 1776
1. Papers laid before the Provincial Congress of New York, 1775-80, vol. 25, Military Committees, 631-33, NYSL. Ogden was chairman of the Elizabethtown, N.J., Committee of Safety.