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Inclosed, I send you General Arnold's Letter of the 18th together with the Examination of Sergeant [Eli] Stiles The General makes no Doubt the Enemy will soon pay him a Visit: I hope not before we get the Row Gallies to his Assistance: ー then succeed or fail, we have done our best. It is a lamentable Case that our Gallies must wait for Cordage and for Gun Carriages to be completed. So long ago as...
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...I also wrote to the General [Schuyler], pressing him in the most Earnest manner, to forward us every necessary Succour, both of Men & Materials. Believe me, dear Sir, no man Alive could be more Anxious for the Welfare of you & Your Fleet, than General Waterbury, & myself; we are, Early & Late, labouring to get the Gallies to your Assistance; one will Sail Thursday at farthest...
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday I received Your Letter of the 21st Instant I hope your little Schooner had ample satisfaction for the Injury her people suffered in the Batteauー
This will be deliver'd you by Captain [Seth] Warner of the Trumbull Row Galley. She carries you a fine reinforcement of Seamen, & besides is herself a considerable Addition to your Squadron. The Schooner, & the TWO Other Gallies will...
Date: 26 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...The Cordage you mention is arrived; but General Waterbury is greatly disappointed in not receiving the Cables. The Gallies must sail with such as are to be had here. Better shall be sent them, the moment they come to my Hands. We are industrious in repairing the Old Fort, the Stone Redoubt at the East Point of Ticonderoga, and constructing the out Line of a Strong Fort upon Mount Independence...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This will be deliverd to you by General Waterbury, as I shall be happy to know that he has Join'd you, desire you will dispatch an Express boat with the News ー The Liberty Schooner sails tomorrow, by whom I shall send any further Accounts that may Arrive from Our Southern Army ー The Other Row Galley will be here tonight from Skeen, & is in such Forwardness, that I expect she will be ready to...
Date: 2 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Last Night I received Your Letter of the First Instant by Lieut: [James] Calderwood. Capt [David] Hawley carried with him all the Seamen that were to be had here, when he went from Hence. Those who have been procured since, Saild Yesterday in the Two Row-Gallies, under General Waterbury's Command, to which were Added One Hundred &Ten Men, Oficers Included. Besides the Number you determined...
Date: 3 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have received your Favours of the 7th & 10th Instant, and am pleased to find You, and your Armada, ride in Valcour Bay, in defiance of the power of Our Foes in Canada; The Liberty arrived last Night, and sails this Moment with the provisions you wrote for, and some of Mr Yauncy's best Beef. ー I have long ago urged the necessity for Continuing to Increase Our Naval Strength upon the Lake,...
Date: 12 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You will herewith receive Genl Arnolds Account of the Defeat and almost total Ruin of our Fleet Yesterday Morning. It has pleased providence to preserve Genl Arnold. Few Men ever met with so many hair Breadth Scapes in so short a space of time. Except the Capture of Genl Waterbury and those with him I do not think we shall lose a great many Men. Upwards of 200 with their Officers escaped with...
Date: 15 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
. . . I cannot help thinking I foresee the worst of Consequences, from too great a proportion of the Main Army being drawn into the Jersies. ー Sir William Howe having a Secure Retreat open to his Ships, can at any time give Your Army the Slip; ー And then his Ships of War, and Armed Vessels, which he can increase at pleasure, (for every Transport may be Converted into a Floating Battery,) will...
Date: 29 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
His Excellency General Washington directs me to acquaint that, it is necessary for the publick Service that you be at Cambridge Wednesday Night [November 1] as The Vessells that were expected at Portsmouth, are said to be return'd to Boston. I apprehend they have laid aside their design upon portsmouth for the present. The General is now confident, from your Vigilance, that the Enemy can only...
Date: 30 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
a Ship from your Port with One Hundred & Eighteen Pipes of Wine is wreck[e]d to the Eastward,3 the Wine & Crew saved, she was bound into Boston. The Captain & Crew are prisoners, & will be here in a Day or Two, when they arrive, you shall know who were the Shippers of This Cargo. a Vessel bound from Boston to Nova Scotia with Dry Goods, is taken by Fisherman from...
Date: 7 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
For this Week past Fortune has Smiled upon Us from All Quarters, & last Night word was brought out of Boston by some Inhabitants who left it Yesterday, that a Vessel was Just arrived there from Quebeck. The Master of which Declared that Our Troops, Assisted by near 6000 Canadians, took Possession of that Capitol a day or Two After the Middle of November; that thereupon all the Ships belonging...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I send by Order of the Commander in Chief The Prisoners undernam'd, which The General desires you will Order to be Secured in some Inland Goal, Worcester we are told has no Prisoners of War, & there is a Secure Goal if you Approve of their being sent to it
Soldiers
Seamen
John Guilderoy
William Beard
Will: Collins
George Mitchel
John Smith
James Richardson
Benj:...
Date: 4 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I am directed by his Excellency General Washington, to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 16th Instant, requesting leave to go into the Town of Boston to Solicit The Admiral for your Exchange The Admiral Has already declined every negotiation for Exchange of prisoners. & has not permitted any Money to be sent to those Gentlemen now in the Hands of the United Colonies, though...
Date: 24 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have this moment wrote to Captain [Henry Edwin] Stanhope, & given him by his Excellencies Command, Such reasons for not imediatly granting his request as Cannot but be Satisfactory; the Same reasons you will clearly See hold good with respect to you ー the General is truely Concerned it is not at present in his power to grant you Leave to go to Nova Scotia to your familly the first moment...
Date: 24 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
you and the rest of my friends must excuse me for not writing often the disbanding An Army within half a cannon shot of the enemy and fixing another in its place is not only a new manouvere but one that causes much trouble and some anxiety the far greater part of this business is happily finish'd for the particulars I refer you to the last page. last night an express from Col. Arnold dated the...
Date: 30 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3