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from you to-morrow morning early, we must have a meeting. Your affectionate humble servant, To the Hon. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Esq. P. S. I wrote you a note about dinner time, on the appointment of the Council of Safety, which I hope you received. CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN TO COMMODORE HOPKINS. Philadelphia, January 15, 1776. SIR: I last night received my orders to go to Carolina, and expect to set out on Thursday morning for one of our pilot boats, now at New-Castle, in which 1 shall take my chance. Should you come out our way, if you think proper to let me know to-morrow or next day, what signal you will show when off our bar, you may depend on my keeping a good look out for you, and let nobody know the signal, but when it is necessary. To the Honourable Eseck Hopkins, Esq., Commander-in-chief of the Fleet of the United Colonies. ( SIGNAL: Some one of the fleet, if together, or the small sloop, if alone, will hoist a striped flag half up to flying-stay.) NEW-YORK DELEGATES TO PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. [Road January 17, 1776.] New-York, January 15, 1776. SIR: Mr. Livingston arrived here on Saturday, and immediately communicated to us your letters, desiring us to purchase a quantity of powder, &c., we accordingly made a particular inquiry how much of that article is now in this Province, and find there is not, nor has there been, any since last April, but what has been in the hands of the Committee here, of which we send an account enclosed, whereby it appears that there is now in the publick store six thousand three hundred and fifty pounds, which, with what is due from the Continent to this Province, is all the stock they have; four hundred and sixty-two quarter casks was all the powder that was brought from Curacoa, though it was said that it was to the amount of three hundred barrels, and that several other vessels, which arrived about the same time, had also brought powder, which was without foundation, To the Honourable John Hancock. COLONEL MCDOUGALL TO PHILIP LIVINGSTON. New-York, January 15, 1776. SIR: Agreeable to your desire, I have given you, at foot, an account of all the Powder this Colony has been possessed of since the battle of Lexington to this day. I am, sir, respectfully, your very humble servant, Powder in our possession since April, 1775:
This, only, remains for our musketry and field artillery. Disposition of the Powder since 17th April:
Sir, my memory does not serve me, without looking over the Journals, as to several small parcels of Powder delivered out; but the whole now in the Magazine, and in the Barracks, is two hundred and thirty-five quarter casks. To Philip Livingston, Esq. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN ALBANY TO ONE IN HARTFORD, DATED JANUARY 15, 1776. Last Friday came an express to this city, with the news that Sir John Johnston, (son of the late Sir William,) with about five hundred men, and a few Indians, (Mohawks,) were assembling in hostile posture, &c. The County Committee convened immediately, and ordered the Minute-Men in Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie, Half-Moon, &c, to march to Johnstown, with four days provision, an axe to every sixth man, &,c, who are now gone and going; but rather guess will prove a false alarm, in part, or, at least, less alarming than at first received. MESSAGE TO THE MOHAWKS, BY MR. BLEECKER, INDIAN INTERPRETER, JANUARY 15, 1776. Brothers: I am sent by the Commissioners of the United Colonies, to acquaint you that the brethren of Albany have received information that several persons, in and about Johnstown, are busy in inlisting men to cut our throats, and are making other hostile preparations to assist in enslaving this country, and to prevent and stop up the road, of communication to the westward. Your Albany brothers, on this alarming occasion, have collected their warriors, and are now sending them up the river, in order to inquire into the truth of the report, and act thereupon as they may judge needful.
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