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We applied to you on the third instant, for your advice on an application to us for supplying with provisions, &c., some Troops from Connecticut, on their intended attack against Ticonderoga, &c. and it is to our great regret that we have hitherto received no answer, although we pressed it, and have since wrote to you on the subject, by Colonel [Philip] Schuyler, since which timefrequent...
Date: 12 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I returned here last evening from Crownpoint, which place I left on Monday last [May 29] . . . Col [Benedict] Arnold was very busy in fixing the Sloop [Enterprise] and Schooner [Liberty] in the best manner for guarding the Lake. He has mounted in the Sloop six six-pounders and fourteen swivels, and in the Schooner four four-pounders and eight swivels, and is fixing swivels in two Perriaugers. He...
Date: 1 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gent. Mr Dirick Swart a member of this Board, who is just returned from Crown-Point, brings the following intelligence; that one Mr Hay who lives about 40 miles up Lake Champlain came down to Crown-Point, who told Colo [Benedict] Arnold and others that he had been to Montreal for some flour, that Governor [Guy] Carleton had him Seized, and Confined for several days; that by the interposition of...
Date: 21 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I arrived here last night, ten o'clock, from Ticonderoga; am sent express by Colonel [Benjamin] Hinman to acquaint the Committee at this place, and also the Provincial Congress at New York, with the condition of the troops and garrisons at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George; expect to set out from hence for New York tomorrow; have not as yet waited on the Committee here, but write these...
Date: 6 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
General [Philip] Schuyler has desired me to acquaint you of the state and situation of the Army in the Northern Department. Six days since, when I left Crown Point, &here were at that post near three hundred men, without employ, having received no orders to fortify; at Ticonderoga about six hundred in the same state; at Fort George, upwards of three hundred men; some few employed in building...
Date: 11 July 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
I this moment Returned from Still Water where I have been To give Some Directions about Conveying the provisions forward to our Troops in Canada immediately upon the Receipt of The Letters which I forwarded to your Excellencey I Draughted a Number of Men for the Batteaus from the Regiments here being well Convinced that the Men appointed for that purpose would not in a year Carry forward...
Date: 16 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Letter which I had the Honor to write You Yesterday, I delivered to General Wooster who sailed this Day. ー
I have within this half Hour received a Letter from General Arnold of Which the inclosed is a Copy I fear the next will announce the Evacuation of Canada by our Troops, probably with' Loss, as I fear that not a sufficient Attention has been paid to a Recommendation of Mine, to bring all...
Date: 12 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I had Just closed my Letter No 1. When I received the Inclosed from General Sullivan which was Left open for my perusal I am extreamly Happy that it contains such Favorable Accounts and do myself the pleasure to Congratulate your Excellency ー I am still in Hopes if reinforcements are soon sent we shall hold Canada, Especially as the Canadians are so friendly ー I am however humbly of Opinion That...
Date: 12 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Spot w[h]ere Tyonderoga now stands was I conceive very Judiciously Occupied by the French because It Commanded both the Passes by Water into these Colonies, and afforded an Easy Access to any Reinforcements they might Chuse to send up, as well as a safe Retreat whenever they might be under the Necessity of Making One. ー But altho' It equally Commands, now in our Possession, the Waters which...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I could not proceed with my Letter of last Night as my Fever after an Absence of two Hours returned and has Continued until half an Hour ago, Since which I have received a Letter from Colo: [Cornelius] Wynkoop inclosing Copy of One from Colo: [Enoch] Poor to him, Dated the 15th at St Johns, and advises that "Our Army are now on their Retreat out of Canada and as there is not Batteaus enough here...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Your dispatches arrived at a Quarter past eleven this morning.
I very sincerely deplore the disagreable situation of you & our Army in Canada, and altho I applaud your Magnanimous spirit yet I cannot by any means approve that you should "think only of a glorious death or a victory obtained against superior Numbers" These sentiments should take place when every other resource is cut off, and...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Dear Sir An Hour ago I received Your Letter of the 20th Inst. Containing the first Syllable of Intelligence I have recd from Skenesborough since I left It. ー
As soon as the first Gondola is finished, write to Colo. Wynkoop to send for her & so of the next, & let me know by the Return of the Bearer, the exact Dimensions of Each, Length, Breadth & Depth. they must be fixed to receive...
Date: 22 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
One Gundalo is finished at Skenesborough and a second is already planking, and I hope if my Health permit me, when I return from the Westward to build one every six Days.
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...The Grief I feel on the Evacuation of Canada by our Troops, is greatly alleviated by the little Loss sustained in the Retreat and the Hope I have that we shall maintain a Superiority on the Lakes.
Be pleased to order up six Anchors and Cables for the Gundaloes that are constructing of the Size of what is called the small Anchor and Cable of an Albany Sloop.
I shall immediately write to...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By this express, you will receive advice From Genl Schuyler of our evacuating Canada, an event which I make no doubt (from our distressed situation) you have some time expected, the particulars of Genl [William] Thompsons repulse, & Captivity, as nearly as could be ascertained, has bin transmitted, you. ー on advice of which, very direct Intelligence that the Enemy were greatly superior to us...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
General Sullivan with our Northern Army is now at Isle au noix to which place he retired on the 18th inst. having conducted his retreat from the Sorrel in such a manner as not to lose a man and only nine batteaus with three pieces of Cannon ー For particulars, as I am crouded with business, permit me to refer you to Mr [Jonathan] Trumbull [Jr.] who will write you by the Bearer ー We have, happily,...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
If any Cutlasses, Stink pots and Hand Grenades can be got I beg they may also be sent for the Use of our armed Vessels...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5