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Last Night about 12 oClock I recd your Excellencies Orders to give my Assistance in taking the Stock of[f] Staten Island ー beg leave to inform your Excellency, that by the Advice of all my Officers, I left the Island Yesterday about 3 oClock P.M. the Inhabitants being unfriendly & the Enemy so near & my Party so small, had I staid any longer we must have fallen into their Hands, as they...
Date: 3 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5