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Gentlemen Immediately after the Reception of your Letters & Pamphlets, I went to Albany to find the State of the Lakes . . . I found the Lakes impassable at that time ー About a Fortnight after I set out for Canada and arrived at St Johns in 14 Days having undergone most inconceivable hardships the Lake Champlain being very high, the Small Streams Rivers, and a great Part of the Country for...
Date: 29 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir This Minute Sergt [Peter] Griffin arrived from St John's where he has been sent by Capt Stewart as a Spy, he brings intelligence that the two Vessels building there are very forward, that their Hulls seem to be finished being blacked up to their Gunwales & that their Masts are preparing, that they appear of Large Size ー This sir is alarming News indeed if true (which I have no doubt)...
Date: 23 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1