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I think it my duty to inform you that I have just received undoubted Intelligence that yesterday morning a large fleet of square-rigged Vessels was seen between Block Island and Montauk, who in all probability are designed for an attack upon this State. When The letters giving me this Information were writing Eleven Sail were plainly discovered, and before the Expresses came away, several more...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I am directed by his Honor the Governor to acquaint you that A Privateer belonging to this place arrived here this morning, who took a light Transport ship, being one of the 130 Sail bound from New York to Great Britain and the West Indies, under Convoy of Three Ships of War, and which without doubt is the Same Fleet that we received information was taking on board a Body of Troops at Staten...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7