Tyonderoga October 2nd 1776
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This will be deliverd to you by General Waterbury, as I shall be happy to know that he has Join'd you, desire you will dispatch an Express boat with the News ー The Liberty Schooner sails tomorrow, by whom I shall send any further Accounts that may Arrive from Our Southern Army ー The Other Row Galley will be here tonight from Skeen, & is in such Forwardness, that I expect she will be ready to sail from hence in a Week...
1. Gates Papers, Box 19, NYHS.