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I am extremely obliged to you for your activity and alertness: I beg you will order Long-Island to be reconnoitred well, and perhaps you will see a probability of attacking them with advantage from the main:...but this must be left to your own prudence. I have ordered the two rascally carpenters who deserted, to be searched for; if they can be found, I shall send them bound to you: I do not...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, As we have received information that a body of the enemy have landed, and are lodging themselves on Long-Island, and as the nature of the country is represented to me as favorable to riflemen, I must request that you immediately detach [William] Thomson's and [Thomas] Sumpter's regiments; Capts. Alston's, Mayham's and Coutirier's companies to that Island, with orders to attack, and if...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
You will receive a number of flats, ropes, and planks for the construction of bridges for your retreat... You are to give a receipt and be ー answerable for them. I am, sir, yours,
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, As the Commodore's ship has passed the bar, and as it is absolutely necessary for your, and the common safety, that the bridge of retreat should be finished this night; I would have you by all means to lay aside all thoughts of the expedition against Long-Island; unless you receive assurances from your scouts, that you may strike an important stroke. Yours,
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As I am extremely solicitous for the honor and safety of you and the troops under your command, and as I am myself persuaded that your danger or safety depends entirely on the strength or weakness of the corps stationed on the other side of the creek; I must request that when the necessary works proposed are finished, you will detach, at least, another hundred men tostrengthen this corps. I wish...
Date: 13 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Could you not contrive this night to take up the enemy's buoys? I have ordered Gen. [John] Armstrong to send an hundred volunteers to ease Col. [William] Thompson's of their heavy duty, for I find, that apart of Col. [Peter] Horry's regiment had most magnanimously refused to take this duty on them: We shall live I hope to thank them....I am in hopes your bridge will be finished this night; you...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Some boats will possibly pass you to night from town on a scouting expedition, before 12 o'clock at night, their orders are to intercept some of the enemy's boats, and gain some important intelligence: I must desire, therefore, that you enjoin the whole sentinels on your Island not to challenge any boats passing from town, or to fire upon them, which would defeat the whole scheme; on their return...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I shall send you immediately a reinforcement. If the bridge cannot be finished without taking down the old...take it down without ceremony, but it would be better to have both Yours
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
[Isaac] Huger's regiment have offered themselves to work at your fort. I believe a corps of blacks would have answered better, but the president and vise-president think otherwise. You must desire the baron, to throw up the redoubt I ordered near on the beach, to prevent their landing. The carpenter's I hope will soon finish the gate. I have applied for six horses, and hope I shall procure them...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have the happiness to congratulate You on a very signal success (if I may not call it a victory) which We have gain'd over the Mercennary Instruments of the British Tyrant ー I shall not trouble you with a detail of their manouvres or delays ー but defer it to another time when I have more leisure to write and you to attend ー let it suffice that having lost an opportunity (such as I hope will...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As the whole fate of America depends on the speedy completion of the New Army;. all consideration ought undoubtedly to be postponed to this object. The Officers (and indeed it must necessarily be so,) are of opinion, that nothing impedes the recruiting of the Army so much as the present rage for Privatering, that unless this is in some measure check'd, it is vain to expect any Success. I wou'd...
Date: 27 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
You will have heard long before this of the inhuman busyness of Falmouth ー the tragedy acted by these hell hounds of an execrable Ministry with a more accursed Tyrant at their head now calls out for decision, for Heaven' sake, My Dr Sir, let your city no longer hold the honest in suspense by these shilly shally mode of conduct, is this a time when whole communities are laid waste by the Dogs of...
Date: 26 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Yesterday on the road I had the honour of receiving yours, and ought to make a thousand apologies for not having answered it immediately, but the circumstance of being on the road, together with the necessity of finishing some despatches to General Washington, and to the Continental Congress, rendered it almost impossible.
I should certainly, sir, have apprized you of my march, had I not...
Date: 23 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
A transport is this instant arriv'd in this harbour with Troops altho it is said that General Clinton gave his honour that not a Soldier was destin'd for this place as We have, Sir, a great deal to do, many works to throw up, Long Island to secure ー and a considerable deal of duty necessary for the safety of the City ー and as the four Battalions orderd to be rais'd in this Province can not...
Date: 9 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir As the North River is now intirely clear of ice I thought it imprudent to suffer the cannon and other stores to remain any longer upon the Battery and in yards at the very water edge from whence the Ships of War Might have convey'd [th]em at their pleasure, as it would have been impossible to have obstructed their Manoeuvres almost within the Very [muz]zles of their guns ー this day therefore...
Date: 11 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
... The Governor and Capt of Man of War had threatend perdition to the Town if the Cannon was remov'd from the Batteries and wharfs, but I ever considerd their threats as a Brutum fulmen, and even perswaded the Town to be of the same way of thinking ー We accordingly conveyd them to a place of safety in the middle of the day, and no cannonade ensued ー Capt [Hyde] Parker [Jr.] publishes a pleasant...
Date: 14 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I think it my duty to inform you that the Phoenix and Governor Tryons Ship are already out of the harbour and that the Asia is under sail ー They most probably have had intelligence of the danger which threatens their Comrade the Mercury and General [Henry] Clinton from your Fleet, and are saild with an intention of attacking it ー as it may be thought prudent to apprize your Fleet of the...
Date: 17 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3