Camp Middle Brook 5th June 1777.
[Extract] Dear Sir
Your Favr of 19th Ulto is before me & observe the Contents. The Enemy and not the Governor of Virginia has Embargoe'd our Vessells in Chesepeak Bay — they have so many Ships & small Craft in the mouth of the Bay, that they cannot get out to Sea, all the small Vessells are unloaded of their flour and the Vessells employed in Transporting Pork, Bacon, Corn Pease &c &c &c to the Head of Elk — and so across to Christiana Bridge, thence to Phila & Trenton by Water & thence here for the use of this Army. The Larger Vessells are Watching their opportunity to get out. . . .
1. Miscellaneous Letters, Force Transcripts, LC.
