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I have learnt from many people, and among others, from two New England officers, that the four eastern states will find great difficulty in raising their quota of men, owing to that excessive rage for privateering, which now prevails among them. Many of the continental troops now in our service, pant for the expiration of their enlistments, in order that they may partake of the spoils of the West...
Date: 21 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Dear Sir The Sailors in the barracks complain of the want of suitable accommodations for an hospital. A few of them on the province island hospital (who are on the recovery) beg for liberty to be removed to the barracks. I hope the committee of Safety will attend immediately to these Matters.
I am sorry to find that our recruits suffer so much from the Want of blankets. Suppose the committee of...
Date: 26 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3