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Yesterday Mr [Abraham] Vanzandt. Capt [Augustine] Lawrence & Myself. returned from the Forts, on examination we found the River considerably wider at Montgomery than at Constitution ー and the Rocks on both the shores much more difficult to fasten Chains to, at the former Place than at the latter; from what Information we have had since I saw you, think it highly probable Mr [John] Jay will...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Capt. Hazlewood [Hazelwood], who came up to us by request of Convention, has fitted a fine vessel, as we conceive in a masterly manner, and given such instructions to some persons we have here employed, with respect to mixing fire combustibles, &c. that we think we can now carry on our works without further assistance. He has in general been very assiduous, and of very much use to us. We are...
Date: 26 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In consequence of a letter received by us the subscribers, members of the secret committee, from the Committee of Safety, dated the day of November instant, when we were at Fort Montgomery fixing the chain across the river, enclosing an extract from a letter of Gen. Schuyler, requesting the Convention to have the river sounded in different places in the Highlands, we have sounded the river,...
Date: 22 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7