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Sir I find by an Order you have given out that the Schooners are to go down the lakes. I know no Orders but what shall be given out by me except sailing Orders from the Commander in chief if an Enemy is Approaching I am to be acquainted with it and know how to Act in my station. I am Sir Yours
Date: 17 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have understood that General Arnold is to have the Comand of the Navey and if that Be So he ought to have Shown me his Power to It, but instead of that he sent an Order for two of the Schooners to get under way and go Down the Lake upon Some Information he Says he had of the Aproach of the Enemy was It not his Duty to have Comunicated It to me and my Orders to have bin Given to the Vessels I...
Date: 17 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Memorial of Jacobus Wynkoop
Shewethー
That your Memorialist has been employed, and served in the continental Service, and in the service of the United States of America, from the 28th Day of June 1775, until the 18th Day of August Instantー
That your Memorialist by his first appointment, was a Captain of the 8th Company and 4th Regt of continental forces raised in the Province of New York.
That...
Date: 27 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6