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The hard Gale of Wind yesterday prevented, my sending back Ensign [Clemens] Botsford. This Morning at one OClock Antoine Geroure [Girard] whom I mentioned to have sent to St Johns returned, and gave the following Account vizt. That at Isle aux Noix there are three thousand Troops encamped, and forty Pieces of Cannon Mounted on their Lines. at St Johns are three Thousand Men, one hundred &...
Date: 16 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Dear General, My last was the 16th Inst. by Ensign [Clemens] Botsford; the next Morning, Lieut: Whitcomb and his Party returned from St John's with Two Prisoners, Ensign Saunders, and a Corporal of the 29th Regiment, who were taken between St John's, and La Prairie. The Ensign says there is a Ship on the Stocks at St John's, designed to mount Twenty Guns, Nine, and Twelve Pounders, several...
Date: 18 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My last was the 18th Inst by Lieut [Benjamin] Whitcomb, the next day at Noon weighed Anchor with the whole Fleet. which Arived here the same Evening, this is a fine bay. & good Anchorage, two Leagues to the No wd of Cumberland Head, on the West shore, the Liberty was ordered to Cruise of[f] the Isle a La Motte untill 2 oClock, & then Join the Fleet On her return, opposite to the Isle a La...
Date: 21 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Dear General My last was from the Bay St Amont the 22d Inst by Capt [Isaac Budd] Dunn, which make no doubt you have received. ー the next day the Fleet arived safe at this place, (which is an excellent harbour) rue are moored in a small Bay, on the West side the Island, as near together as possible. & in such a form that few Vessells can attack us at the same Time, & then will be exposed...
Date: 28 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I received your favour of the 2d Inst & Coppy of yours of the 23d Ulto yesterday by General Waterbury who arived with the Two Gallies about 2 oclock. ー I fully expected by him, to have all the particulars of the Evacuating Long Island, & New York, He seems to know little of the Matter, & General Washingtons Letter seems not very explicit ー the Affair of long Island, seems, still in...
Date: 7 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am much surprised so little Attention is paid to us by the good People
below, I should have imagined, Two hundred Seamen could have ben sent us, in three, or four Months, after they were so pressingly wrote for. ー I make not the least doubt there has ben the greatest Industry Used at Ty, in fitting out the fleet, I am glad to hear the other Gally is so forward, I expect to see her the first...
Date: 10 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday morning at 8 oClock the Ennemies fleet, Consisting of one Ship mountg Sixteen Guns, One Snow, mounting the same Number One Schooner of fourteen Guns, two of Twelve, Two Sloops, a Bomb ketch, & a large Vessell (that did Not come up) with Fifteen, or Twenty flatt Bottom Boats or Gondolas varying, One Twelve or Eighteen pounder in their Bows - Appeared of[f], of Cumberland Head. we,...
Date: 12 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
As I was beginning to Seal this Capt [Thomas] Church, whom I had sent down the Lake to gain Intelligence of the Situation of the Enemy — Returned, and Informs me that about four miles below Crown Point has discovered a large Topsail Vessel coming up the Lake — he made all the Sail he could with his Boat and by the help of his Oars got clear of her she came to anchor at Crown Point. I sent off two...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
after Su table Regards to your honour: I Wold a quaint you I have Lately heard there Was Many things Said to My disadvantage at ticonderoga after I Left there last fall: I think It Was taking a Great advantage of a mans Carictor Biting [behind] his Back I think it Wold Bin No More than yousing Me Well If any Man had any thing a Ganst My Conduct to have talked that over While I was present and in...
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Preparatory to the execution of a plan to Surprize any Ports which the Enemy might have Establish'd on the Lake, I thought proper Yesterday to dispatch a reconnoitering party with Orders to Proceed to Split Rock last night, to spend this day in Observation, and return in the Evening to an Establish'd rendezvous, and make his report. It has return'd to this place in the Moment of the Embarkation...
Date: 27 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . .I am getting the heavy Cannon that were saved out of the Shipping upon Delaware mounted upon travelling Carriages, they are very fine Iron 18 and 24 pounders and I suppose will amount to about twelve. If we should take a post below the City, they, with the heavy Brass Artillery and the Mortars will be of the greatest use to us, but the Cannon will be too heavy to move any great distance. I...
Date: 20 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11