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....I must beg leave to add, that, from intelligence I have just received, and a Variety of Circumstances combining to Confirm it, Genl. [William] Howe, with the Fleet from Halifax, or some other Armament, is hourly expected at the Hook, with designs, doubtless, to make an Impression here, and possess themselves of this Colony, of the last Importance to us, in the present controversy.
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have employed Persons in Building the Gondolas and Rafts, which the Congress thought necessary for the defence of this Place, and in conjunction with the [New York] Provincial Congress, have determined to sink Cheveaux de Frizes one of which is already begun. I am, etc.
Date: 13 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir: I received yours of the 1st. Inst. and am to inform you, your Letters of the 15th. and 22nd. of April, advising of the Capture of the Brig Elizabeth by Commodore Manley, were put into the Hands of Mr. Moylan to answer; but by some Means or other were not; nor can they be found. It will be, therefore, necessary to acquaint me again with the Contents, if you esteem my Answer to them material....
Date: 15 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As it is and may be of great Importance, to have a Communication with the Jerseys and Long Island, I have had several Flat Bottom Boats built for the purpose, and have thoughts of getting more for Passaic and Hackensack Rivers where they may be equally Necessary for the Transporting our Army, or part of it occasionally, or succours coming to or going from it. I am etc.
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir: I am now to acknowledge the Receipt of your Favors of the 27th. Ulto. and of the 3rd. and 6th. Inst., and in Answer to the First, think you was right in your Direction to Mr. [William] Bartlett, about the Brigantine Hannah, as Mr. [Robert] Morris had wrote for one.
The two Schooners, considering their Force and Number of Men, certainly behaved extremely well in repelling the Attack, made by...
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have ordered a Ton of Powder, half a Ton of Lead, five Thousand Flints, some Cannon, intrenching Tools, and a Dozen whip Saws and Files, to be immediately sent you; which you will receive in two or three Days, with a List of them and every other Article sent from hence at this Time...
In Regard to a Person to superintend the Building of Gondolas, and other Carpenters to carry on the Work, I...
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I this Evening received Intelligence of the 19th. instt. from Captn. [Charles] Pond of the Armed Sloop Schuyler, of his having taken, about 50 miles from this on the South side of Long Island, a Ship and a Sloop bound to Sandy Hook. The Ship from Glasgow with a Company of the 22d Regiment, had been taken before by one of Commodore Hopkins Fleet, who took the Soldiers out and ordered her to Rhode...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir: I herewith transmit you an extract of a Letter from General Ward which came to hand by last night's post, containing the agreeable Intelligence of their having Obliged the Kings Ships to leave Nantasket Road, and of two Transports more being taken by our Armed Vessels with Two hundred and ten Highland Troops on board.
I sincerely wish the like success had attended our Arms in another Quarter...
Date: 23 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By last nights post I was favoured with yours of the 16th Inst, containing the Interesting Intelligence of your havg Obliged the Kings Ships to quit their Station, and of the further Captures of Two Vessels from Glasgow with Highland Troops on board ー These events are extremely pleasing & I flatter myself the former will be attended with salutary consequences ー It will give our little...
Date: 23 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Honble Congress having determined a Valuation shall be made of the Ordinance Stores taken last Fall by Captain Manley, and directed me to appoint a Person in Behalf of the Continent to do it, in Conjunction with one to be chosen by Captain Manley, as you will perceive by the inclosed Resolve, I must request that Favour of you to undertake the Business.
I have transmitted the original Invoice...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I this Morning Received Information, that one or more Boats have passed through the Narrows in Defiance of the Fire from the Rifle Men, who had no Boats to pursue them. This passage I had Reason to suppose was properly guarded, by the Whale Boats under your Command, and am not a little surprised on hearing the Contrary.
I do expect you will for the Future have them rowing across the Narrows from...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...I would observe to Congress, that it is not in my power to send any Carpenters from hence to build the Gondolas and Gallies General Arnold mentions, without taking them from a Work equally necessary if not more so, here of the same kind and submit it to them, whether It may not be advisable, as it is of great Importance to us to have a number of these Vessels on the Lake, to prevent the Enemy...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have wrote Congress about Carpenters on General Arnold's Letter, and having none to spare from hence, have pointed out the Necessity of their sending some from Philadelphia, if not there, withdrawing for the present those employed up the North River,2 deeming it a Matter of infinite Importance to have a considerable Number of Gondolas on the Lakes, to prevent the Enemy from passing....
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I this moment received a Letter from Lieut. [Joseph] Davison of the Schuyler Armed Sloop, a copy of which I have inclosed and to which I begleave to refer you for the Intelligence communicated by him. I could wish General Howe and his Armament not to arrive yet, as not more than a 1000 Militia have yet come in, and our whole force, including the Troops at all the detached posts and on board the...
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Accounts communicated yesterday thro' Lieut. [Joseph] Davison's Letter are partly confirmed, and I dare say will turn out to be true in the whole. For two or three days past three or four Ships have been drop[p]ing in and I just now received an Express from an Officer appointed to keep a look out on Staten Island, that forty five arrived at the Hook to day, some say more, and I suppose the...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have the honor of transmitting you an extract of a letter received last Night from General Ward. If the Scheme the Privateers had in view, and the measures he had planned, had been carried into Execution, the Highland Corps will be tolerably well disposed of, but I fear the fortunate event has not taken place. In General Ward's Letter was inclosed one from Lieut. Col. Campbell2 who...
Date: 30 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir: I received your Favours of the 20th. and 23rd. Ulto. and am happy to hear of the further Success of our armed Vessels in the Capture of the Transport with the Highland Grenadiers.2 If they have been fortunate enough to take the 11 Ships mentioned in your last, I suppose we are in Possession of a large Share of the Highlanders ordered against us.
A Fleet has arrived at the Hook,...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir: Since I had the honor of addressing you and on the same day several Ships more arrived within the Hook; making the number that came in them, 110, and there remains no doubt of the whole of the Fleet from Hallifax being now here. Yesterday Evening 50 of them came into the Bay and Anchored on the Staten Island side. Their views I cannot precisely determine, but am extremely apprehensive, as a...
Date: 3 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The distress we are in for want of Arms induces me again to urge yoursending on all such as can possibly be spared with the greatest expedition. The enemy have landed under cover of their Ships and have taken possession of Staten Island, from which in all probability they will soon make a descent upon us. The Arms would have to be sent to Norwich and from there by Water to this place provided...
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir When I had the honor to address you on the 30th Ulto, I transmitted a Copy of a Letter I had received from a Gentleman, a member of the Honble Genl Court [of Massachusetts], suggesting the improbability of Succours coming from thence in any reasonable time either for the defence of this place, or to reinforce our Troops engaged in the Canada expedition. I am sorry to Inform you, that from a...
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5