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You will be pleased to lay this letter, with the enclosed, before the Honourable Congress for this Province; by which they will see the necessity there is of immediately settling those matters Mr. Bedlow laid before them when he was in New-York last. We have had some evil persons already amongst us, who have instilled into the minds of the people at work here, that there is no security for their...
Date: 5 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your considerations on the conspicuous light you have been placed in at this post, your watchfulness for the interests of America as far as in your power lies, suppose you mean in the expense that must attend our present works, with the many et ceteras therein, we beg leave to make the following reply:
1st. As to the erroneous distribution of 137 articifers and labourers at the post when you drew...
Date: 10 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have been down in the sloop Liberty, examining the river as low as Slaughter's Landing, and find the depth of water, from there to this post, greatly to exceed the information we had had. We also took a view of Pooploop's kill, and found its situation the best by much for any defensive works in the Highlands. A little to the north of the house on the hill, is a place where a battery of heavy...
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2