Sir,

Commodore Hazlewood will be under a necessity of laying up our little Fleet in some place in New-Jersey, for the Winter: Council have recommended him, with your Excellency's approbation to employ the men belonging to it, which will probably consist of about five hundred, in throwing up a breast-work in some convenient place where they may defend the cannon stores &c until the spring. We shall be happy in cooperating w^th. your Excellency in any plan you may devise wherein these men may be employed for the service of the General cause, either in conjunction with the militia or otherwise. The Commodore will lay before you, for your approbation, the measures which he may propose to adopt. Should your Excellency think proper to order the militia of your state to afford the Commodore any assistance, in case the enemy should attack him, the council will thank you for a communication of such parts of the order as may be necessary, to the commodore, that he may be able to act in conjunction with them—I am &c