Brunswick [N.J.], July 6, 1778.
Gen. Washington desires me to state that he wishes you would employ three, four, or more persons, to go to Bergen Heights, Weehawk, Hoebuck,1 or any other heights thereabout, convenient to observe the motions of the enemy's shipping, and to give him the earliest intelligence thereof; whether up the river particularly. In short, every thing possible that can be obtained.2 Yours, &c.,
Stirling
Transcript, DLC, Peter Force Transcripts, Miscellaneous Letters, A-B, fol. 5546.
1. That is, Bergen Heights, Weehawken, and Hoboken, New Jersey, all of which abut Upper New York Bay or the Hudson River.
2. From a letter that Stirling wrote Burr on 4 July, it is clear that Burr was gathering intelligence from enemy-held New York City. Ibid., fol. 5544.
