having that article regularly served to them in future at or as near as possible to Captain Parker’s house, at Reading, where the greatest part of our officers are quartered?

I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servant,

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL.

To the Honourable the Council of Massachusetts-Bay.

P. S. The number of servants, including a cook, a carpenter, a shoemaker, a tailor, and a piper, amount to 16 men, 4 women, and 2 children; total 22.

MESHECH WEARE TO THOMAS CUSHING.

Exeter, June 26, 1776.

SIR: Your favour of the 24th current, per Mr. John Odin, we have duly received, with the box of Continental money, agreeable to the letters accompanying the same; the bill of charges we have also paid; and acknowledge ourselves obliged for your care and trouble in forwarding the same.

In behalf of the Council and Assembly, I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,

M. WEARE, President of the Council.

To the Honourable Thomas dishing, Esq.

ADVICES FROM CANADA.

Admiralty Office, London, July 30, 1776.

By letters from Captain Douglas, of his Majesty’s ship Isis, dated at Quebeck, the 26th and 27th of last month, it appears that immediately after raising the siege of Quebeck, of which he gave an account in his letters of the 8th and 15th of May, every proper measure was taken to facilitate the further operations against the Rebels, by sending down the river all the pilots which could be procured, to bring up the transports that were daily expected with General Bur-goyne from England and Ireland; and that no time might be lost on their arrival, he had provided pilots for the upper river, and placed frigates and armed vessels in proper stations to assist and escort them; and also, lest the transports should be prevented by contrary winds from sailing up the river, he had stationed vessels with provisions, at proper places, for the use of the troops, if they should be obliged to disembark and march by land. By these dispositions, all the transports with troops which had pilots on board, proceeded up the river, without stopping at Quebeck, and arrived at Three-Rivers time enough to defeat the Rebels, and afterwards drive them from St. Johns and all their posts below Lake Champlain. Captain Douglas, in the same letter, says that the prudent and spirited behaviour of Captain Harvey, of the Martin sloop, cannot be too much commended; and that the zeal, vigour and unanimity of his Majesty’s servants, on both elements, were scarcely equalled on any other occasion within his remembrance. He also writes that he was, in concert with General Carleton, considering upon a proper establishment for armed vessels to be employed on the Lakes Champlain and Ontario, and in contriving the most expeditious means of getting them, with other craft, on the said Lakes, in order to the better accelerating the passage of the Army; and that Captain Harvey, of the Martin, was returning to Sorel, in order to examine into the means of floating between camels, (as is practised in Russia and Holland,) through the Rapids of Chambly into Lake Champlain, the six armed vessels, one of which was already arrived from England, and the others hourly expected.

COLONEL BULLITT TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

[Read June 27, 1776. Referred to Mr. Harrison, Mr. Rutledge, Mr. Goldsborough, Mr. Paine, Mr. Rodney.]

[Philadelphia, June, 1776.]

GENTLEMEN: Allow me, after observing to you that my motives for engaging in the service I am now in were not through lucrative motives of pay or rank, as I flatter myself my conduct will sufficiently satisfy, to observe to you, that when I received your commission as Deputy Adjutant-General, I was at a loss what to understand from the rank you assigned me in it; your giving it at least deprived me of serving in the cause without it; and if you think it necessary for the service I should rank in the service, it was offering great indignity to the service of nine campaigns and seven actions fought for my country with various successes—I believe double the number that any other officer you have in this department, except our General that commands us. There is a delicacy in being commanded by officers that a person formerly has been accustomed to command, which is my situation; for I do not recollect but three officers (except our commandant) in this department of whom I had not the command last war. Under these considerations, I am induced to apply to your able Board to either establish my former rank, or give me a commission without any being mentioned; in this, I would not be understood to be aiming at the increase of my pay, as I shall be always satisfied with such as will be sufficient to subsist on.

I am, with the utmost respect, your honourable Board’s most obedient, humble servant,

THOMAS BULLITT, D. A. G.

To the Honourable the President and Continental Congress.

ANDREW BUCHANAN TO MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY.

Baltimore, June 27, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: I take leave to offer the enclosed plan of arrangement of the Militia under my direction to your consideration. The obvious utility in furnishing them better arms, and avoiding the inconvenience, as well as expense, of having too great numbers in service at the same time, will, I am persuaded, present itself at first view, and render it unnecessary for me to recommend it. The Baltimore-town Battalion, to whom as yet it has been only proposed, will, I believe, readily adopt it. I shall do nothing further until it has received the sanction of your approbation.

I am, with respect, your humble servant,

ANDREW BUCHANAN.

To the Honourable the Council of Safety of Maryland.

To Captain A. B. : To avoid calling out too many of the Militia at one time on alarm, I have it in instructions from the General to throw each company of the Battalion in certain divisions; one of which only is to be ordered on duty at the same time, except on an extraordinary emergency. The mode adopted, you have enclosed for your government. The advantages resulting therefrom will, I make no doubt, sufficiently recommend it; however, you are to take the sense of your company therein, and advise me as soon as possible, that the General may be enabled to lay the plan before the Council of Safety for their approbation; without which, it will not perhaps be put in practice. You are to have the effective arms in your company valued by the commissioned officers, or any three of them, and marked B, 1., &c., and so progressively upwards, taking a list thereof, with the owners’ names opposite its number, that the same may be replaced or paid for by the publick if lost or rendered useless in the service. It would be advisable to place the best of these arms in the first division, to be delivered over occasionally to the second, third, and fourth. You will be pleased to lose no time in arranging your company and acquainting each person to what division he belongs. If your company should be incomplete, the deficiency should fall in the last division, as it can be easily supplied from those who have been in service before them, &c.

N. B. Instructions to be given by the Colonels to the Captains.