L, MHi, Timothy Pickering Papers, vol. 17, fols. 187–88a. Docketed: “W^m. Pickman/July 22^d. Aug^t. 12. 78.” The sections that are not printed concern the "arrogance" and brutality of the British Army, the "success" of the Continental Army at the battle of Monmouth Courthouse, N.J., on 28 June 1778, the maneuvers of comte d'Estaing's fleet off New York City, a request for Pickering's assistance and advice in the affair of his brig Gayton, now in British service, in case of its capture by the Americans, and the death of Christopher Sargeant, of Salem. Two paragraphs are added at the end, dated 12 Aug., that concern the requisition by Maj. Gen. John Sullivan of a company of militia from Salem to join his Continental troops for the Rhode Island expedition, the illness of his son, John Pickering, Jr., and the death of Mrs. [William?] Wetmore (Katy Pynchon).