Harlem heights 27th September 1776
I do hereby Certify that Captain Benjn Eyre, built & completely finished two Gondolas or Row Galleys, one other, is finished all but the smiths work, and one was Left on the Stocks at Newyork entirely Timberd & Rigged
that he was actively employed about the Water frize, Sunck in the North River & has been allso employed to appraise sixteen vessells taken up to sink in the North and the east River, that he has gone up to Albany to engage & hurry down plank and boards for the use of the Army, all which he has to my Certain Knowledge faithfully executed.
Stephen Moylan
[Endorsed] I certify as above Thomas Mifflin
1. Papers CC (Memorials addressed to Congress), 41, III, 11, NA.
