Ringwood February 29th 1776.
[Extract]
Sir: ー Though personally unknown to you, yet I hope you will excuse the trouble of this address, which is to beg the favour you would recommend the Bearer, Mr. Ambrose Gordon, to some proper person in New Windsor, to take in Charge, Six Tons of Iron I have sent there, by order of Mr. Francis Lewis, Merch't N.York, to be forwarded from thence, by the first opportunity, to Messrs. Samuel Tudor & Aug't Lawrence Superintendents, to the Ship-building near Poughkeepsee.
1. Hugh Hastings, ed., Public Papers of George Clinton First Governor of New York, 1777-1795 ー 1801-1804 (New York and Albany, 1899), I, 225, 226.
