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It was so late when I receivd your Letter, & I have been so engaged in Business & surrounded by Company that I am scarcely able to tell you that I received it, & by no Means have Time to say how much I am obliged to you for writing it But however much I am pressed for Time I can not conclude without lamenting the unhappy Situation of our Country ー So defenceless is it that I am...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I send you inclosed a printed account of intelligence recd at Headquarters from our camp at the [great] bridge about 20 miles from Norfolk,... Our Army has been for some time arrested in its march to Norfolk by a redoubt, or stockade, or hog pen, as they call it here, by way of derision, at the end of this bridge. Tho', by the way, this hog pen seems filled with a parcel of wild-boars, which we...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
My Dear Brother I congratulate you on the honor of Virginia being fully restored, by the desastrous attempt of Dunmores troops on our lines at.the [Great] bridge. He, & his maimed ragged crew, find no safety for themselves but by skulking on board the ships. The tories of Norfolk & inhabitants of Princess Anne [&] Norfolk have forsworn their allegiance to Dunmore; many of them, after...
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I thank you for your favor of the 11th Inst: & hope 'ere this you are informed of the reduction of Quebec. Colo. Arnold's Success there will have decisive Consequences. The loss of a province which Cost the people of Engld 70 Millions in the acquisition will make them feel a truth, which it has long been the business of administration to conceal from them. In the very uncertain State of our...
Date: 24 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Lord Dunmore's letters to General Howe, which very fortunately fell into my hands, and were enclosed by me to Congress, will let you pretty fully into his diabolical schemes. If, my dear Sir, that man is not crushed before spring, he will become the most formidable enemy America has; his strength will increase as a snow ball by rolling; and faster, if some expedient cannot be hit upon to convince...
Date: 26 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
You have seen the King's speech, which you wou'd suppose, must convince everybody of the bloody intentions of the King & Ministry, but it is far from being the case in this City; for there is a certain Ld Drumond who perswades the Fools who are gaping after a reconciliation, that he is in the secret of the inner Cabinet, that the sincere wish is, to make up with America, upon her own terms,...
Date: 8 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I think the Congress should apply for foreign Assistance, as the Bloody Violence of K--g & Ministry & the Apathy of the people of Britain, seem incurabl[e] Every Sinew must be Exerted!
P. S.
... I would want No men from France, but agree to ta[ke] what goods & manufactures we wanted of them, for a certain term of years & that they should furnish a Navy Sufficient to protect our...
Date: 4 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
. . . P. S. The renewal of the order from Mr De Sartine was occasion'd by two West India Merchant prizes2 bro't in here by Capts [James] Babson &[John] Kendrick Commanders of two Privateers belonging to Messrs Babcock & Blair in Boston & Winthrop Sergeant & Co at Cape Anne. These prizes and their Cargoes have been seized & are now detained by Government here after...
Date: 18 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9