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You will please to give every Assistance which General Schuyler requires, that may be in your Power, and least you may not have kept a Copy of his Letter, I will transcribe that Paragraph, which contains his Demand. "Intrenching Tools of every Kind will be wanted, more Powder, Lead, and Cannon Ball, and guns for the Vessels on Lake Champlain. Rigging, Sail-Cloth, and Sail Makers to be sent up."...
Date: 22 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received yours of the 24th Inst with its several Inclosures, & the Letter and Invoice from General Ward, giving Intelligence of the fortunate Capture made by our armed Vessels, on which Event you have my Congratulations.
I have wrote Genl Ward, as you will see by the inclosed Letter, (which having read, you will seal & send by Post) to send forward to New York, Colo [Rufus] Putnam's...
Date: 28 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Congress have determined on building sundry Gondolas and Fire Rafts, to prevent the Men of War and Enemy's Ships from coming into the New York Bay or Narrows. I must therefore request, that you make Inquiry after Carpenters, and procure all you can, with Materials necessary for building them, that they may go on with all possible Expedition, as soon as the Person arrives from hence, whom I have...
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I must beg you will immediately send me one Field Piece, I find the Enemy have not got their Vessels out of the Creeke, and should the Artillery come in time have no Doubt of taking them we have more plunder or rather Kings Stores than we can get Wagons to carry off. I wish you would send forward all the Wagons you can collect.
I would advise a Company to be sent to the Court House in order to...
Date: 14 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Although your leisure don't permit you to give me a line, it shall not hinder me from writing you.
The last mondays Watertown Paper gives us a good Accot of your Lodgment on Cobbil Hill, & that the Enemy don't fire on you, & we are told that Cannon have been very lately put on board boats at Bunker hill, which makes me conjecture, the Enemy are preparing to Decamp from Boston, in the...
Date: 30 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I rec'd your Favor yesterday by Capt Palmer. I will chearfully do every Thing in my Power to have the Gallies immediatly fitted for Use. I fear we shant be able to supply them with Men from this Post as we have but few Watermen among the Troops here. Capt Palmer I think might be able to get a Number from the Country as he has considerable Influence with the People that woud best Suit, but he,...
Date: 12 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Capt Cook Commander of the Washington came here last Night. I will send a Boat To Morrow to take in the Guns from Peeks Kill intended for her Use. It will be impossible to obtain Men from this Post properly qualified to man the vessel, all that would have been Useful for that Purpose being sent to the two Frigates at Poughkeepsie. Capt Cook thinks that the greatest Part of the Men that were with...
Date: 15 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . The Congress is not yet got down. Capt Hodge is up atPoughkeepsie to assist in bringing her down & not a Gun on Board his own Ship.2 I will send to· Palmer & try to prevail on him to take Command of the Shark3 tho' I despair of his doing it, in the Mean Time I will look out for somebody Else that will. We shall want Artillery Men much, we hant a Man to a Gun I...
Date: 3 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . .I expect to draw a Cable across the [Hudson] River in Front of the Chain this Morning every Thing being prepared for it & the Montgomery's 2 Cables spliced & fixt for the Purpose — As soon as one of the Booms is ready it can be put in Place of the Cable — The Fasts on shore being formed so as to answer for a Boom & by this Means shoud the Cable not answer the Purpose...
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
We have certain advises that part of the Enemy's Fleet, Viz Seventy Sail were beating off Little Egg Harbour with a Southerly wind on Saturday morning. From this Event, there seems to be but little room to doubt but that the destination is into Delaware Bay and against the City of Philadelphia. . . .
Date: 28 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have your favr of the 4th instant. We are yet intirely in the dark as to the destination of the Enemy, the Fleet has neither been seen or heard of since they left the Capes of Delaware on this day week. If they had intended back to the Hook, we must have heard of their arrival there long before this time, as the Winds have been constantly fair. As the sickly season has commenced to the...
Date: 7 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9