[Ticonderoga] ー 26th September 1776
Dear General
Yesterday I received Your Letter of the 21st Instant I hope your little Schooner had ample satisfaction for the Injury her people suffered in the Batteauー
This will be deliver'd you by Captain [Seth] Warner of the Trumbull Row Galley. She carries you a fine reinforcement of Seamen, & besides is herself a considerable Addition to your Squadron. The Schooner, & the TWO Other Gallies will follow Sunday, or Monday at Farthest; but the Cordage is not yet Arrived; and General Waterbury assures me, that if your Estimate was as large as you Mention it to have been, not more than a Third of it can have been sent; as, more than Twenty Coils of Rigging are now Wanted for the Gallies already built. ー The powder wrote for so long ago is not even in part received at Tyonderoga; Oconomy is the Word ー You cannot be more Anxious to have all the Gallies with you, than we are to send them. Be satisfied; more cannot be done than is done to Dispatch themー
Col [Jonathan] Trumbull [Jr.] writes you an Account, or rather, rumour of an Action, that happen'd last Sunday, near Turtle Bay. When any thing to be depended upon, Arrives, I will send it you without Delay ー In-closed is Dr [Jonathan] Potts's Letter to me, which I received last Night. My affectionate Compliments to Col: [Edward] Wigglesworth. I am [&c.]