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... last Evening Draughts were made from a Number of Regiments here mine among the Rest to the Amount of 1,000 Men with these and a proper Numbers of Officers, Genl Putnam at Candle lighting embarked on Board of a Number of Vessela with a large Number of intrenching Tools and. went directly on The Island a little below the City called N utten Island where they have been in trenching all Night and are now at Work and have got a good Breast Work there raised which will cover them from the Fire of the Ships and it is directly in the Way of the Ships comeing up to the Town the Asia has fallen down out of Gun Shot from this Place, and it deprives the Ships of the only Watering Place they have here without going down toward the Hook. , I am now at 10 o'clock and the other Brigade is not here .yet dont know my Love whether I shall see You before next Week. I am [&c.] G Selleck Silliman