I am now at the 9th, & yesterday wrote a note to Mr [John] Jay desiring him to furnish you with news and to send his letter to me; as yet it is not come; however there is little news to inform you of. The troops keep filing off from Boston for New York, where Man of Warr & some People on shore have had a little firing; I don't mean at the City, but in some part of that Bay our People took their Boats Crew prisoners, wounded some men & obliged the Ship to Slip her Cable & anchor, which our Folks have since weighed and got; the report is that two or three Men of Warr are arrived at the Hook, so we may expect the Campaign will open in that quarter before long. Nothing new from the Southward by the last Post.
I have just heard that Capt Barry was at Cape May last Friday [April 5] & Convoyed out some New England Men;.I hope you'l meet him. We find difficulty to get Men to go down in the Schooner 2 as they have a notion they will catch the distemper she brought in with her; but we must get the better of this oppinion, and perhaps I may write to you again if any delay happens which however I will endeavour to prevent being most truly [&c.]
Robt Morris.
P.S. If you cou'd clear of Cape May in the night it might do well.
1. "The Deane Papers," Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1886,I, 133-40. Continuation of letter of April 8, 1776.
2. The Continental schooner Wasp.
