Gent: 

As the Gallies, & other Vessels, on the Delaware, lately under your direction, have been dismantled the further continuance at Trenton of the Seamen & others¹ who served in them, is become needless.² They may be usefully employed as guards in the interior parts of this state, or in assisting in the transporting over the greater Rivers, stores & soldiers. 

For this End, I desire you will send the privates with their necessaries of this Corps by the most direct road to Reading in Bucks County, & thence to this place. Herewith you have an order to the Waggon master of Bucks County, to furnish a sufficient number of Carriages for the transportation of their necessary Baggage & of the sick & wounded disabled. As to the Officers, you are to dismiss the whole save [6 or 7?] 15 or 20 with a bounty of two months pay, over & above the pay in arrear. They have been supported thro' the winter, & have now the benefit of the best season to look out for new Employment. I think they must be satisfied with the Council.³ 

These (six or seven) 15 or 20 Officers are to take the command of their people, keep good order & disclipline among them, & proceed hither as soon as may be. An order from you, to the senior officer, will be requisite. M' Crispin, the Commissary will, we I hope, be able to provide rations for their march 

M^r. Blewer⁴ informs Council, that a Considerable number of Musquetts, & other small Arms, & some Gunpowder belonging to this State are lodged at Pitts-Town in New-Jersey. These stores w I wish to be in a more convenient situation, & within our jurisdiction. You are to procure a sufficiency of Carriages from the Waggon-master of Northampton County for this purpose. On delivery on the inclosed Letter, M^r Crider will send you the necessary Teams.⁵ send them to the care of Joseph Deane, Esquire of Easton. It is left to your prudence to judge, whether our sails at Pitts-Town, ought to be secured at Easton also. One officer & some few privates should be continued at Pitts-Town whilst the more valuable & less cumbrous goods remain there. He may attend the Waggons to Easton, & then march his party to this place. I write to Moore Furman, Esquire, of Pitts-Town to take care of the stores which may be left behind[.]⁶ it will be very proper, that a prudent Person residing near the Falls of Delaware be engaged to the give some attention to the Vessels left in the that neighbourhood, & to the Guns & Cannon & Shot, which belonged to them. Perhaps Joseph Kirkbride, Esquire, may be induced to undertake this. Council would be very happy in hearing that M^r. Kirkbride had said he would do it.⁷ for this purpose I write to him on the subject. It will be proper that the person appointed, be informed, how the Vessels & stores are & other articles are disposed of. 

I send down by M^r Blewer to be deliver^d to M^r Crispin⁸ a supply of money to discharge the most urgent demands, & to pay off the officers who may be dismissed.⁹