[Extract]
The only news I think of at present is, that the few soldiers who were in Barracks here were Yesterday [June 6] put on Board of the Asia man of war. A few men with little opposition stopped the Baggage Carts, made them return to Van Dyck's and kept two Chests of spare arms & three half Barrels of powder; they insisted that tho' they permitted the soldiers to go away armed, it would be criminal to let spare arms and ammunition be carried away ー especially as arms were some time ago seized & sent on Board of a Frigate and powder taken out of their whaling sloops coming into the Harbour
John McKesson
[New York] Wednesday mom'g 5 o'clock June 7th, 1775.
1. Hugh Hastings, ed., The Public Papers of George Clinton (New York, 1899), I, 196. Hereafter cited as Hastings, ed., Clinton Papers.
