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CATALOG NUMBER S 3009
OBJECT NAME Letter - Original plus handwritten transcript
DATE May 22, 1776
AUTHOR Philip John Schuyler
RECIPIENT [Goose] Van Schaick
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Cornelis D. Wynkoop, [Philip Van Cortlandt] (“Cortland”), [Peter]
Gansevoort,
PLACES Stillwater, Albany County, Tryon County, Fort Edward,
KEYWORDS Revolutionary War, batteaus, tents, powder, militia, troop
movements
Fort George May 22d 1776
Dear Sir
You will please with all possible dispatch / To send up as many [^ all the] men of Your + Colonel / Wynkoops Regiment from [^ that are at] Albany + Still Water or / as can be spared out of the Batteaus Elswhere / [& in the County of Albany] Except those in Tryon Coun Except those necessary / to keep the Batteaus fully manned; 1 sub:, 1 [serj]: 2[1 corps] / and 21 privates to Join Lt Van Vechten at Saratoga / and to remain there [^doing duty with his party] untill further orders, the / Like number at [^ to remain at] Fort Edward and the remainder / to move on to this place, [Lts] Colonels Cortland / and Gansevoort to Come up with them. If waggons / If possible to can be procured At Albany I was for their Baggage / to It will Expedite their March, to this place where I / wish they should arrive the soonest possible, __
I am D Sir Your [Obe] Serv
P J Schuyler
As neither Colo Cortlandt or Colo Sonfwroth will go beyond this / place at least not for some time, they need not be detained / by much Baggage _ Pray send up tents with them if possible /
To Colo V Schaick Keep half a Ton of Powder and one / Ton of Ball at Albany to arm the / Militia in Case of need _________
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Fort George May 22d: 1776
To Colo: Van Schaick
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No. 929
Ent’d..Fol. 48.
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B.B.
No. 35Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
