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I am surpris'd you should pretend to Contradict my Orders to the Captains of the Schooners at this time when we are alarm'd by a Signal of the Approach or the Enemy, and much more so, as I acquainted you some time since that the Commander in chief had Appointed me to take command of the Navy on the Lakes, had I not receiv'd this Appointment from my rank in the Army and as commander in chief of...
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
You will Repair to Fort George without Delay and there in conjunction with Captain Dow A:D: QM General employ the Carpenters in constructing two strong Schooners of Sixty feet Keel & twenty feet Beam ー They shou'd be so constructed as not to draw above Six Feet Water ー when they have all their Cannon and stores on board and as I conceive they will be more servicable in proportion as their...
Date: 24 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Immediately on receipt of this you will get the Guns on board the Schooner which is already Launched together with a sufficient Quantity of Ammunition — some provisions & put her in the best state of Defence you can and moor her with a Spring on her Cable in such a station as that she may protect the Vessels on the Stocks and the store houses — Shou'd any attempt be made to destroy either —...
Date: 26 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9