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The Honble Continental Congress having been pleased to appoint me to a Major General's Command in the American Army, and having directed to take
Charge of that Part of it, which is, or may be employed in the Province of New York, I do myself the Pleasure to advise you thereof
You will please with all Expedition to make me a Return of the Troops under your Command, and their Condition, specifying...
Date: 28 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I did myself the Honor to write you yesterday since which I have received some Intelligence, which I think it my Duty to lay before you.
A Gentleman, a Member of the Provincial Congress here is this Afternoon arrived from Albany. He advises that a few of the Onida Indians are lately arrived at that Place in a Disposition very friendly to our Cause ー that they have declared a Desire that the...
Date: 29 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I do myself the Honour to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 28th Inst which I received late last Night ー enclosing the Resolutions of Congress of the preceding Day, and a Copy of a Letter from the Committee at Albany bearing Date 20th. June 1775.
In Obedience to the Resolutions of Congress, I shall without Delay repair to Ticonderoga. It will however be necessary previous to my...
Date: 30 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your letter of saturday last with the resolution of Congress of the same day, and copy of the military Arrangement Inclosed was delivered to me at five this Morning.
Permitt me, Sir, to Observe that the resolution seems to be founded on a supposition that the Inhabitants in the Neighberhood of Ti[c]onderoga are a people distinct from those called Green-Mountain Boys, and that they are numerous,...
Date: 3 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The person that commanded the sloop [Enterprise] on Lake Champlain has left here.2 It is more than probable that I shall not be able to procure at Ticonderoga such a person as I should wish to command her. I entreat you therefore to send me with all possible dispatch a person fit to confer such an important command upon. You will please to transmit me an account of the agreement you...
Date: 11 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have the Honour to advise you that I arrived here on Sunday [July 9] at Noon, since which Time I have been closely employed in the Duties of my office.
It is with Pleasure I remark that Intelligence from various Quarters indicates a friendly Disposition in the Indians towards us. No Efforts however are wanting on the Part of our Enemies to change these Sentiments in the Savages to Resntment...
Date: 11 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since my last of yesterday, Capt. [Jeremiah] Halsey, who has commanded the Sloop2 since she was left by her former Commander, arrived at this Post. He reports that the Schooner Liberty is returned from her Cruize towards the North End of Lake Camplain ー that about Isle la Mott she fell in with two Canoes, containing three Frenchmen and as many Indians ー that the[y] informed the Capt:...
Date: 27 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have a boat on stocks, sixty feet in length, which I hope to finish by this day week, I suppose she will carry between two and three hundred men; another of the same size, is to be put up to-day, so that I hope soon to have vessels enough to move on. If any more powder can be got, I hope it will be sent, as not half a ton will be left, if so much, when the troops are completed to a pound a man.
Date: 31 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Major General Philip Schuyler to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, August 2, 1775
Capt. [James] Smith, who has been sent up by the New York Congress, in lieu of the former Captain who left the sloop, arrived here a few days ago, and has made me a report of what alterations will be necessary to put her into a proper state of defense: But as I have no Carpenters to spare, unless I quit building boats, I have declined it for the present. On which he delivered me a paper, of which...
Date: 2 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Provision is now coming up with more speed than heretofore; and my fears of being detained on that account are subsided. I continue building Boats; but if the accounts contained in the enclosed affidavits be well founded, and of which we do not seem to entertain the least doubt,2 the Enemy's naval strength will be such, as, in all probability, will prevent our getting down the Sorrel...
Date: 3 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Major General Philip Schuyler to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, August 6, 1775
I enclose you a Copy of a Report made me by the Master of the Schooner on Lake Champlain, confirming the Account that Vessels of Force are building at St Johns.
The Accounts of the Persons employed in taking and garrisoning Crown Point & this Place are involved in such a Cloud of Confusion, that I shall find it very difficult to execute your Orders on this Head with Precision. The Colony of...
Date: 6 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We have struggled thro that Variety of Difficulties Which is ever Attendant on Want of Method & Regularity, and Altho we had not Craft to move 200 men when I arrived at Tyonderoga on the 18th July, and had then to repair Mills and send for Carpenters to this Place, It is with Pleasure I can inform you we are Now able to move about 1300 with Twenty Days Provision And that we shall very soon...
Date: 23 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Captain [Remember] Baker of the unenlisted Green Mountain Boys, having been heretofore employed by me on Scout to Canada with the only View to gain Intelligence, and with express Orders not to molest the Canadians or Indians, lately went into that Country without my Leave with a Party of five Men, and discovering a Boat manned by an equal Number of Indians (by authentic Intelligence sent me from...
Date: 31 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1