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I this moment Returned from Still Water where I have been To give Some Directions about Conveying the provisions forward to our Troops in Canada immediately upon the Receipt of The Letters which I forwarded to your Excellencey I Draughted a Number of Men for the Batteaus from the Regiments here being well Convinced that the Men appointed for that purpose would not in a year Carry forward...
Date: 16 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...The Cagnuaga Indians have sent an Express to our army demanding assistance and threatning if they had not immediate Relief to join the Enemy. This being a true state of facts I beg you would send Coll. [Elias] Dayton, with his Regiment on as fast as possible. I beg you to write General Washington for more Troops and that you would please to order the armed vessels here to sail to the other end...
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This Morning two Expresses arrived from three Rivers which were sent to observe the Motions of the Enemy ー One of them was a friendly Canadian, who lived at three Rivers & passed among the Fleet ー the other, one of our own Officers ー They agree that the Number of Vessels are as follows, viz, one Ship & one Brig, & eight Sloops & eight Schooners. They both say that the Troops there...
Date: 6 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Dear General By a strange reverse of Fortune we are driven to the sad necessity of abandoning Canada ー I had the most sanguine hopes of collecting our Army together & driving the Enemy below Dechambeau, in which I doubt not I should have succeeded, had not [John] Burgoyne with a strong party arrived in Canada & reached the three Rivers the night before our People made the unfortunate...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...I think it would be by far, the Best to remove to Crown Point, Fortify that, Build Row-gallies to Command the Lakes, & by Scouting parties to defend our Frontiers, as the Savages have already begun upon us. They have made two Attacks upon our men, Kill'd & taken near Twenty, Among which are seven officer...I hear from all Quarters that the Enemy are very Numerous in Canada. Their...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...I am now fortifying this place & will Endeavour to have it as Strong as possible & fix as many Galleys to Command the Lake as I can ー I have Sent for Some person Acquainted with those Constructed at Philadelphia that we may have Some of that [kind] Built if It is agreeable to your Excellencey; I have wrote General Schuyler for his advice, which hope Soon to Receive ー in the Interim I...
Date: 2 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I this moment recd yr favor of the 28th ult., am much obliged by yr kind offer of assistance, but have the pleasure to inform you that at present our army, weak and reduced by sickness as it is, will be fully sufficient to oppose any force wch may be sent against us at present; I am well convinced that the Enemy have neither Boats to transport any army nor armed vessels upon the Lake to defend...
Date: 3 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My Lord. ー agreeable to your Lordships Request I have Conversed with General Washington, who says that he has no power to Treat upon the Subject your Lordship mentioned, but has not the least objection to my going to Philadelphia to Inform Congress of what your Lordship has been pleased to Communicate to me upon the Subject. I shall wait your Lordships further Direction, and am with much esteem,...
Date: 30 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I suppose General Washington has wrote you of the Detachmt under Colo [Benedict] Arnold having Safely arrived at Kenebeck more than a week Since and that one of our Privateers has taken a vessel from Canada for Boston Laden with provisions with a number of Letters on board to General Gage & others in Boston which plainly Declare that the Canadians are too much on our Side for them to Expect...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Humbly Shews: John Sullivan's,
That General Washington sent him to Portsmouth in this Province to take the Command of the forces here to Repel any attacks upon this or upon any other sea-port in this Quarter, and has since sent some small force from the Army to assist in such Defence; That he in consequence of the directions given him, has summoned in a part of the Militia with whose...
Date: 27 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
May it Please your Excellencey ー I arrived here in about twenty four hours after I Left you have Collected Powder So as to make up near thirty Barrels & have Since been preparing to Set an Example to the other Seaports by Setting the Fleet at Defiance upon my arrival I was Surprized to find that the Boom So much Talked of was not prepared That the Bridge Intended for Crossing from the main...
Date: 29 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
General Sullivan being called to Head quarters upon business of Great Importance, takes this oppertunity to return his thanks to the Several Officers and Soldiers that have appeared under his command, for the cherfullness and alacrity they have Shewn in Compleating the works for defence of this Harbour The industry of the officers and men has fully convinced him of their disposition to defend...
Date: 1 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2