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...I also wrote to the General [Schuyler], pressing him in the most Earnest manner, to forward us every necessary Succour, both of Men & Materials. Believe me, dear Sir, no man Alive could be more Anxious for the Welfare of you & Your Fleet, than General Waterbury, & myself; we are, Early & Late, labouring to get the Gallies to your Assistance; one will Sail Thursday at farthest, & the Two Others, we hope, on Saturday. It is the Blacksmiths Work that has delay'd us somuch, notwithstanding we have got more Forges, and altho, with different Gangs of Men, they are Work'd Night & Day...