Philada July 31st 1777. 5 O'Clock A.M
Sir
An Express this Moment arrived with a Letter from Genl Rodney a Copy of which I inclose agreeably to your Request in your Favour of yesterday which came to Hand last Night. The Enemy by this Intelligence are in the Offing of the Capes, and the wind was fair yesterday for their coming up this Bay. I shall send likewise toLord Sterling a Copy of the enclosed immediately.2 I am Sir [&c.]
The enclosed I just recd from Genl Mifflin.
1. Papers CC (Letter Books of the President of Congress, 1775-87), 12A, II, 237-38, NA.
2. Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, was at Trenton.
