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May it Please your Honours

Soon after my arrival here I waited upon the Gentlemen our Friends in Lewes Town to Consult them on the Business for which I was order'd Down, & laid before them the Resolution of Congress on that head. It was determined upon as the most effectual mode, that all the Water Craft in Cedar Creek & else where from which the Enemy are likely to receive Supplies shou'd be collected into Lewes Town Creek, & put under the Care of the armed Boat Stationed there.² Accordingly I issued Orders to Captn Murphey who Commands the sd Boat to proceed to Cedar Creek and Seize all the Craft there; and to enable him to effect this without danger from the Inhabitants, I ordered down two Parties of Foot, one on each side the Creek, to aid and assist him. however Capt Murphey on his Passage up to Cedar Creek on the 6th Instant fell in with and took a Sloop from New York (of which you will be fully informed by Colo Hall and Major Fisher) which prevented him from executing my orders respecting the Craft. I then sent Orders to my Officers to burn all the Craft in that Creek, and to disarm the Inhabitants, which I expect they will effect before they return to Camp. . . .