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Col [Rufus] Putnam has directed some Works for [the] defence of Eliza[beth] Town Ferry & adjacent Approaches to that Place ー No Ground from thence to Newark Bay will serve for erecting a Battery ー As for Bergen Shore the Land is proper but the Channel so Wide, that little advantage will accrue, as to guarding that Bay ー
The Boats & Can[n]on along this Shore to Amboy are removed up the...
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Nothing extraordinary has happened here, The Frigate that appeard yesterday under Sail standing towards the Town is now out of View ー supposed to be in Princes Bay ー At this Post & the Blazing Star are posted about 1000 of the N Jersey Militia ー They begin to be so anxious to return to their harvest, under the apprehension of their familys being without support, if they continue longer...
Date: 9 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This Morning Lord Howe sent Lt Reeve of the Eagle Man of War, with a flag of Truce to this Post ー He delivered me the Letters which accompany this ー Nothing worthy your attention has happened here since I had the honor to receive your Instructions of the 11th Inst by Mr Ross ー The Enemies Guards in our View continue without any new movement ー From their Number it is probable that two Regiments...
Date: 14 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Your favour of the 17th Inst with resolves of Congress of the 10th which I had the Honor to receive yesterday I shall pay all possible attention to ー
Some days ago I came to this Place with a View to execute a plan to surprise some of the Enemies Posts on Statin Island formd. by consent of General Washington, from what we could observe and the intelligence receiv'd there were three Stations...
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, I find by intelligence from our Guards at So Amboy that some Shallops five in number that passed us yesterday from Fish Kill were full of Soldiers, who appeard on Deck after getting round Billips Point into Princes Bay ー As the Shallops passed our Feild Peices played on them ー but with little effect ー the Enemy returnd the Cannonade briskly during the Space of an hour with four, Six and...
Date: 26 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...Some Shallops passing from First Kill into Raritan Bay yesterday afternoon brought on a Cannonade ー Our feild peices did little or no execution and the small Arms were not used ー the distance being too great ー the Enemy fired four, six and Twelve Pound Shot, very briskly for the space of an hour ー We lost one man of the Melitia and had two wounded, not dangerously ー some Iron four or six...
Date: 26 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
General [Nathaniel] Heard, Genl [Daniel] Roberdeau have considered with me the Plan proposed for Attacking the Posts on Staten Island ー Two things we entirely agree in ー Namely that the Number of Troops proposed are by no means equal to the undetaking ー We cannot rationally suppose the Enemies Force on the Island to be less than 10,000 ー where they are cheifly posted we have no intelligence to be...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Within these Two days we have observed Sixteen Ships pass from Sandy Hook to the Narrows ー but no new movement of the Enemy on Statin Island ー some more shallops have come down the Sound from Frish Kill into Princes Bay ー To give us the entire command of the Sound, as well as to prevent the Aproach of Tenders or Armed Sloops to this place ー permit me to recomend to the Honourable Congress ー that...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, Since break of day this Morning upwards of Eighty sail of Ships have been seen standing in from Sea towards N York ー And on requisition of Genl Washington ー Col [Samuel] Miles' two Battalions of Riflemen have gone on to reinforce his Excallenceys Army ー also Col [Samuel] Atlees Battalion of Musketry ー about four hundred sett off from Amboy this afternoon, and as many of the flying Camp...
Date: 12 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
General Green [Nathanael Greene] has informed your Excellency that a party pass'd over last night to Staten Island with a view to attack the Enemy, at the east end near the Watering Place ー as we advanced towards Richmond Town information was given, that some Companies of British & Hessian Troops were stationed there ー surprising them was therefore the first object, which was effected this...
Date: 16 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6