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Yesterday I received Your Letter of the 21st Instant I hope your little Schooner had ample satisfaction for the Injury her people suffered in the Batteauー
This will be deliver'd you by Captain [Seth] Warner of the Trumbull Row Galley. She carries you a fine reinforcement of Seamen, & besides is herself a considerable Addition to your Squadron. The Schooner, & the TWO Other Gallies will...
Date: 26 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This will be deliverd to you by General Waterbury, as I shall be happy to know that he has Join'd you, desire you will dispatch an Express boat with the News ー The Liberty Schooner sails tomorrow, by whom I shall send any further Accounts that may Arrive from Our Southern Army ー The Other Row Galley will be here tonight from Skeen, & is in such Forwardness, that I expect she will be ready to...
Date: 2 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Last Night I received Your Letter of the First Instant by Lieut: [James] Calderwood. Capt [David] Hawley carried with him all the Seamen that were to be had here, when he went from Hence. Those who have been procured since, Saild Yesterday in the Two Row-Gallies, under General Waterbury's Command, to which were Added One Hundred &Ten Men, Oficers Included. Besides the Number you determined...
Date: 3 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have received your Favours of the 7th & 10th Instant, and am pleased to find You, and your Armada, ride in Valcour Bay, in defiance of the power of Our Foes in Canada; The Liberty arrived last Night, and sails this Moment with the provisions you wrote for, and some of Mr Yauncy's best Beef. ー I have long ago urged the necessity for Continuing to Increase Our Naval Strength upon the Lake,...
Date: 12 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
By his Excellency George Washington Esquire, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United Colonies of North America.
To Colonel Benedict Arnold.
1. You are immediately on their March from Cambridge, to take the Command of the Detachment from the Continental Army against Quebeck & use all possible Expedition, as the Winter Season is now advancing, and the Success of this Enterprize (under God...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Nothing very material has happened in this Camp since you left it. Finding we were not likely to do much in the Land Way, I fitted out several Privateers, or rather armed Vessels, in behalf of the Continent, with which we have taken several Prizes to the amount, it is supposed, of £15,000 Sterling. One of them a valuable Store-Ship (but no Powder in it) containing a fine Brass Mortar 13 Inch,...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2