or elsewhere; for the hire of which you are to allow a reasonable price; and in case the owners of such teams, wagons, and carriages, shall refuse to let the same upon reasonable hire, you are hereby authorized and empowered to impress the same.

Given under my hand, at Head-Quarters at Cambridge, this 30th day of November, Annoque Domini 1775.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

[Read December 11, 1775.]

Cambridge, November 30, 1775.

SIR: I had the honour to write you the 28th instant, by Captain Joseph Blewer.  Last evening I received the agreeable account of the Schooner Lee, commanded by Captain Manly, having taken and carried into Cape Ann a large brigantine, bound from London to Boston, laden with military stores, the inventory of which I have the pleasure to enclose you.  Cape Ann is a very open harbour, and accessible to large ships, which made me immediately send off Colonel Glover and Mr. Palfrey, with orders to raise the minute-men and militia of that part of the country, to have the cargo landed without loss of time, and guarded up to this camp.  This I hope they will be able to effect before it is known to the enemy what port she is carried into.  I sincerely congratulate you on this very great acquisition; and am, Sir, your most humble servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The Hon. John Hancock, Esq.

P. S. Manly has also taken a sloop in the Ministerial service, and Captain Adams, in the Schooner Warren, has taken a schooner laden with potatoes and turnips, bound to Boston, and carried her into Portsmouth.

ORDERS BY GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Head -Quarters, Cambridge, November 29, 1775.

Captain Towns, of Colonel Woodbridge’s Regiment, tried at a late General Court-Martial, whereof Colonel Woodbridge was President, for “behaving in an unofficer like manner, in suffering a prisoner to escape who was charged with an intent to steal.”  The Court were unanimously of opinion, that the prisoner is guilty of behaving unbecoming an officer, by declining to obey the orders of the Quartermaster-General, in not assisting to seize a soldier suspected of theft, and for suffering the said soldier grossly to abuse Colonel Mifflin, and therefore adjudge the prisoner to be reprimanded by his Colonel, at the head of the Regiment, in the presence of Colonel Mifflin; and also adjudge that he pay a fine of three Pounds, to be appropriated according to the 51st article of the Rules and Regulations of the Army.

Jonathan Wilkins, soldier in the same Regiment, and in Captain Town’s Company, tried at the same Court, for “an attempt to steal, and for insolent language to the Quartermaster-General.”  The Court were of opinion, that the prisoner was guilty of abusive language to the Quartermaster-General, and therefore adjudge him to be fined twenty Shillings, to be appropriated according to the 51st article of the Rules and Regulations of the Army.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, November 30, 1775.

A General Court-Martial to sit to-morrow morning, at eleven o’clock, at Mr. Pomeroy’s, in Cambridge, to try Lieutenant-Colonel Enos, for “quitting his Commanding Officer without leave.”  President, Brigadier-General Sullivan, with the twelve Field-Officers next for court-martial duty.

Nathaniel Pattin, of Captain Dow’s Company, in Col. Prescott’s Regiment, tried at a General Court-Martial, for “attempting to pass the lower guards, and making a disturbance at Cobble-Hill, contrary to orders.”  The Court acquit the prisoner, who is to be immediately released.

Invoice of Stores on board the NANCY, Store-Ship, ROBERT HUNTER, Master, taken by the Schooner LEE, Captain MANLY.

Laden on board the Nancy, store-ship, Mr. John Wilkinson, contractor, and Robert Hunter, master, the undermentioned particulars, to be by them transported to Boston, in North-America, (the danger of the seas excepted,) and there delivered to John Grant, Esq., Commissary and Paymaster to the Train of Artillery in North-America, being in further part of Colonel Cleveland’s demand.  By order of the Board, the 26th of July, 1775.

Muskets, with bayonets, scabbards, and steel rammers, 2,000.  Cartouch-boxes, with belts and frogs, 2,000. Tanned leather slings, 2,000.  In eighty chests.

Flints: Wallpiece, 250, in one keg.  Musket, 100,000, in fifty kegs.  Carbine, 5,000, in two kegs.

Forge-bellows, one pair.

Hand-bellows, double blasted, three pairs.  Budge barrels, copper hooped, fifteen.  Kit brushes, six.  In four three-quarters, one-half, and one-and-a-quarter ton vats, No. 114 to 119.

Fifty handbarrows; and wheelbarrows, fifty.

Callipers, one pair of brass, one pair of iron ditto, and one hundred yards of canvass, No. 114 to 119.

Chalk, four hundred weight, in two quarter-ton vats.

Spare travelling carriages, twelve-pounders, heavy, 11.

Empty paper cartridges, twelve-pounders, 10,000, in ten three-quarter ton vats, No. 99 to 108. Six ditto, 5,000, in three-quarter ton vats, No. 109 to 111.  Four ditto, 2,500, in one three-quarter ton vat, No. 112. Three ditto, 3,000, in one ditto, No. 113.

Flags: Union, small, one; ordnance jack, two.

Pincers: For drawing fuzes, six pairs; common ditto, twelve.

Funnels of plate, ten; ditto, for shells, copper of sorts, six.

Hammers for vents, fifty, No. 114 to 119.

Park pickets, shod, twenty-five.  Handerow levers, six feet, twenty-five.

Harness, horse, thills, with cart saddles, eighty; bit halters, one hundred; traces, twenty; wanties, eighty; in eighteen three-quarter ton vats, No. 57 to 74.

Harness, men’s, twelve to a set, 200, in twenty three-quarter ton vats, No. 37 to 56.

Tanned hides, fifteen; laboratory kettle, one; copper ladles, without staves, 24-pounders, seven; 12 ditto, seventeen; 6 ditto, ten; 3 ditto, two; iron melting ladles, twelve; Muscovy lanterns, thirteen; tin ditto, ten; dark ditto, fifteen, No. 114 to 119.

Marline: Twenty skeins tarred, and ten white.

Brads, 5,000 of one inch, and 5,000 of one inch and a half.  Sponge tacks, 5,000.  Nails, small copper, 2,000; 4,000 of streak, and 90,000 quarter rose, No. 114 to 119.

Camp kettles, 50, in four three-quarters and one-quarter ton vats, No. 120 to 124.

Oil: One barrel of olive, in seven jars, and one barrel of train, in fourteen jars.

Cartridge paper, 12-pounders, sixty reams, in 24 three-quarter ton vats, No. 75 to 98.

Perpendiculars, new pattern, two; rafts, half-round, twelve, No. 114 to 119.

Anvil, for smiths, one.

White rope, coils, 2 of four inches and a half, 1 of three inches, and 2 of one and a half.

Sheepskins, 25 dozens, in twenty-five bundles.

Sheets of tin for case shot, three boxes.

Shot: Musket, 31 tons, 500 pounds, in six hundred and twenty-five boxes.  Buck, 1,200 pounds, in eight barrels and four boxes.

Spikes: Eight-inch, 10,000, in twenty weight powder barrels, No. 1 to 20; seven-inch ditto, 10,000, in sixteen twenty weight powder barrels, No. 21 to 36.

Spare sponge and rammer heads: Ten of 24-pounders, fifteen of 12, thirty of 6, and six of 3.  Twenty-five pair of scissors.  Three pair of brass scales.  Weights from four pounds to a quarter of an ounce, three piles, No. 114 to 119.

Staves, spare, for ladles, &c., 100.  Thread, 200 weight, in a half-ton vat, No. 120.

Twine, 100 weight, in a quarter-ton vat, No. 121.

Round-shot: Twelve-pounders, 3,000; six-pounders, 4,000.  Junk, 10 tons.

Mortar-beds for land service: Three of 13 inches, four of 10, and four of 8.

Ammunition wagons, seven,  Carbines, with bayonets,