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I am glad to relieve you from your Anxiety, respecting Troops being sent from Boston to Quebeck. These Reports, I apprehend, took their Rise from a Fleet being fitted out about fourteen Days ago to plunder the Islands in the Sound, of their live Stock; an Expedition which they have executed with some Success, and are just returning; but you may depend on it no Troops have been detached from...
Date: 15 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Design of this Express is to communicate to you a Plan of an Expedition, which has engaged my Thoughts for several Days. It is to penetrate into Canada by Way of Kennebeck River, and so to Quebeck by a Rout ninety miles below Montreal. I can very well spare a Detachment for this Purpose of one Thousand or twelve Hundred Men, and the Land Carriage by the Rout proposed is too inconsiderable to...
Date: 20 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have spoken to the Qr. Master, about a proper Person to superintend the Building of Gondolas [for Lake Champlain] but he knows of none. There is a Man who came to direct the Building of some here; and if any of the Carpenters shall be deemed qualified after seeing the Model, I will send you one.
Date: 9 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have ordered a Ton of Powder, half a Ton of Lead, five Thousand Flints, some Cannon, intrenching Tools, and a Dozen whip Saws and Files, to be immediately sent you; which you will receive in two or three Days, with a List of them and every other Article sent from hence at this Time...
In Regard to a Person to superintend the Building of Gondolas, and other Carpenters to carry on the Work, I...
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have wrote Congress about Carpenters on General Arnold's Letter, and having none to spare from hence, have pointed out the Necessity of their sending some from Philadelphia, if not there, withdrawing for the present those employed up the North River,2 deeming it a Matter of infinite Importance to have a considerable Number of Gondolas on the Lakes, to prevent the Enemy from passing....
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As for the Articles wanted for the Gondolas, I should suppose many of them may be purchased of the Proprietors of Crafts about Albany, & Persons who have vessels there, by allowing them a good Price. The Communication by Water being now stop'd they cannot employ them, & I presume may be prevailed on to part with most of their Tackle, for a good Consideration...
The Carpenters from...
Date: 17 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
All the Eastward Accounts say, three or four Captures have been made lately, among them a Provision Vessel from Ireland which of herself came into Boston Harbour.2
In the Southern Department, we have been still more lucky. Sir Peter Parker and his Fleet got a severe Drubbing in an Attack made against our Works on Sullivan's Island, just by Charles-Town, South Carolina. A Part of their...
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
About eighth Days ago a Brig from Quebec to Boston, was taken and brought into Cape Ann.2 By some intercepted Letters from Captain [Thomas] Gamble to General Gage and Major [William] Sheriff, the Account of the Temper of the Canadians in the American Cause is fully confirmed. The Captain says, that if Quebec should be attacked before Carleton can throw himself into it, there will be a...
Date: 3 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have had no Event of any Consequence in our Camp for some Time, our whole Attention being taken up with Preparations for the Winter, and forming the new Army, in which many Difficulties occur. The Enemy expect considerable Reinforcements this Winter and from all Accounts are garrisoning Gibraltar and other Places with foreign Troops, in order to bring the former garrisons to America. The...
Date: 26 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your favor of the 26th ulto with the inclosures Containing an acct of the Surrender of Fort Chamblee, was an excellent repast, but somwhat incomplete for want of Montgomeries Letter which (a Copy) you omitted to inclose ー on the the Success of your enterprize So far I Congratulate you, as the acquisition of Canada is of unmeasurable importance to the Cause we are engaged in ー No acct of Arnold...
Date: 5 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My last to you was the 5 Inst, I have since received your most agreable favour & its inclosure of the 7th The surrender of St. Johns is a pleasing presage of the Reduction of Quebec, in effecting which I hope Colonel Arnold will Cooperate; The last account from him is dated the 13 Octobr at the 2d portage from Kennebec to the Dead River, from whence he had dispatched an Express to you and...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I wrote you this Day by Express & informed you therein the great Necessity I was in for Ordnance Stores & Ammunition, & that I would send Henry Knox Esqr to New York, to procure there, as much as can be spared; from thence to proceed to you. That Gentleman will deliver you this Letter. I recommend him & the Business he gqes upon to your Attention. Should he find more Money than he...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear Sir I received your Favour of the 13th Inst. with Its Inclosures and am heartily sorry and most sincerely condole with you upon the unhappy Fall of the brave and worthy Montgomery and those gallant Officers and Men who have experienced a like Fate. In the Death of this Gentleman, America has sustained a heavy Loss as he had approved himself a steady Friend to her Rights, and of Ability to...
Date: 18 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3