ther, are appointed Commissioners to dispense pardons to repenting sinners.

My compliments to the gentlemen with you of my acquaintance. I am, dear sir, your most obedient servant,

GO. WASHINGTON.

To Major-General Gates, Ticonderoga.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO GENERAL WARD.

Head-Quarters, New-York, July 19, 1776.

DEAR SIR: In my letter of the 7th instant, I mentioned the propriety of forwarding a quantity of powder, and lodging it between this and Boston. I am now more fully convinced of the necessity of such a measure, and would wish you to forward, with all convenient speed, five hundred barrels, to be stored at Norwich, in Connecticut, till further orders. In a postscript to my letter of the 9th of June, I was of opinion it would be much easier for the troops bound from Boston to the northward to proceed this way, for the benefit of water-carriage; but this being entirely cut off by the ships up Hudson's River, you will speed their march by the nearest and most convenient route. The several articles wrote for in my letter of yesterday, you will please to forward to Norwich, with orders for them to be sent on by water, provided the enemy's ships should not stop the communication, in which case land-carriages must be procured.

I am, sir, &c.,

GO. WASHINGTON.

To Major-General Ward, Boston.

P. S. In speaking of the troops marching to the northward, I have reference to the three regiments bound to Ticonderoga. The other two I hope will be on their way for this place before this reaches you.

G. W.

P. S. Since writing the above, your letter of the 15th instant came to hand. If the three regiments you mention have marched, they may proceed to this city; if not, one of them to march for Ticonderoga, the two remaining (sick) to follow to the last-mentioned place, by divisions, as fast as a Field-Officer's proportion is well enough, as they will be much the properest (having had the small-pox) for that department

G. W.

EPHRAIM ANDERSON TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

New-York, July 19, 1776.

HONOURABLE SIR: I have the honour now to inform you that I am preparing for the destruction of the British fleet in this harbour, and hope in a few days to be able to give a good account of the greatest part of them.

I should be extremely thankful if the Congress will honour me with the appointment of Deputy Adjutant-General to the Flying-Camp. It is a department in which I am sure I can be of infinite service to the cause, by disciplining young troops, both officers and men. I will leave myself upon the Congress for the above, or any other appointment they may honour me with, &c.

I am, honoured sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,

EPHRAIM ANDERSON.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq., President of Congress, at Philadelphia.

JOSEPH TRUMBULL (COMMISSARY-GENERAL) TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

New-York, July 19, 1776.

HONOURED SIR: Walter Livingston, Esquire, Deputy Commissary-General at Albany, writes of the 15th instant, as he has done several times before, that large supplies of fresh beef, &c., are wanting in the Northern Army; that he has no money to procure them with; and that the chest there is empty. That the chest is empty, is confirmed to me by my brother's letter of the same date. Mr. Livingston writes me that he is in debt already more than $30,000; and my brother, that the whole $500,000 ordered some time ago, $200,000 of which went by General Gates, would not pay their old debts.

For fear my department should suffer for want of cash, I am sending an express this afternoon to Mr. Livingston, with $18,000, which can but illy be spared from here; but as eating cannot go on without cash, and they are worse off for it than we are at present, I thought it my duty to do it, and at the same time to write Congress, and beg that my department to the northward may not suffer for the want of so necessary an article as cash.

I am, honourable sir, your most humble servant,

JOSEPH TRUMBULL.

To the Hon. John Hancock, Esq., President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia.

P. S. Mr. Gerry is here—better than when he left Philadelphia.

GENERAL GREENE TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Camp on Long-Island, July 19, 1776.

SIR: Colonel Hand reports that the ship that went down the day before yesterday morning, still continues there at the Hook. An armed sloop came up last night. All the rest of the fleet continue as they were. Nothing extraordinary has happened since yesterday in this camp.

I am, with all due respect, your Excellency's most obedient, humble servant,

NATHANAEL GREENE.

To His Excellency General Washington, at Head-Quarters, New-York

COLONEL HAY TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Haverstraw, July 19, 1776.

SIR: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of yours, directed to the County Committee of this County. The enemy now lie in Haverstraw Bay, and are using every effort to land and destroy the property of the inhabitants. The great extent of shore I have to guard obliges me to keep the greatest part of my regiment on duty, in order to prevent their depredations. I have received a reinforcement from General Clinton, at Fort Montgomery, of about eighty men, and hope when he receives your Excellency's letter he will send me further relief, as the enemy seem to direct their operations against the west shore. We are in want of powder and ball—a supply will be absolutely necessary. If I had had two or three small cannon, I should have been able to have destroyed one of the cutters that grounded near Stony-Point, and lay there six hours.

The enclosed examination of a deserter from Captain Wallace, will give your Excellency all the information I am able to communicate at present.

I am, with esteem, your most obedient servant,

A. HAWKES HAY.

To His Excellency General Washington, New-York.

P. S. The bearer can bring up in his saddle-bags twenty weight of powder.

The Examination of Richard Turpin, a native of she town of Boston, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, who saith: That in his passage from Bedefort, in New-Hampshire, to the West-Indies, he was taken in a schooner called the Hannah, commanded by Captain Peurly, on the 17th of May last, by the ship Rose, Captain Wallace, on board of which ship he has been ever since; that he sailed from Halifax with the fleet, which consisted of about one hundred and fifty sail; that from the best information he was able to procure, the troops consisted of about ten thousand men fit for service; that the ships that came from Halifax were, the Chatham and, each of fifty guns, the Rose, Greyhound, Swan, and the Tamar, each twenty guns; that when they arrived at Staten-Island, a man came off and informed Captain Wallace that there were five hundred men ready to join their troops, and the next morning about one hundred and fifty men came down and joined them, and the next day the rest joined them—in all about five hundred; that the inhabitants appeared very ready to afford them every necessary; that they got a number of cattle on the Island. That they lost no men on board the Rose, but three men were wounded on board the Phœnix, in passing New-York; that the Rose received three shot in her hull, and her rigging was damaged; that the Phœnix was also damaged in her hull and rigging; that the intention of the ships in coming up (he river was, to procure stock, receive Tories, burn the ships building up the river, and destroy the buildings on the shore; that a few people (not exceeding twenty) had come on board in the river; that they had received no provisions since they