New York, June 10, 1776
[Extract]
....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.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, V, 123, 124.
