Fort Montgomery 9th July 1777
[Extract]
. . .I expect to draw a Cable across the [Hudson] River in Front of the Chain this Morning every Thing being prepared for it & the Montgomery's 2 Cables spliced & fixt for the Purpose — As soon as one of the Booms is ready it can be put in Place of the Cable — The Fasts on shore being formed so as to answer for a Boom & by this Means shoud the Cable not answer the Purpose little or no Time will have been lost by it — If the Cannon are arrived from Fort Lee I Wish how soon they coud be forwarded here as we have every Thing ready to stock & make Carriages for them — I am [&c.]
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1. George Clinton Papers, no. 610, N.Y.Arch.
2. Continental Navy frigate, Captain John Hodge.
