[Baltimore, May 22, 1775]
[Extract]
the Connecticut People have sent a detachment of men & taken Possession of Ticonderoga & Crown point to Prevent General [Guy] Carletons Joining the troops with some Indians & Cannadiens, so you may be assured if the Ministry do not alter their measures there will be warm work, & well I am Convinced those people to the Northward die rather than give up, besides I think if Government Carries matters any further that it must throw of[f] the Dependence of their Coloniesー
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.