Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 3018
OBJECT NAME Letter (original), with handwritten transcription
DATE October 3, 1776
AUTHOR Philip John Schuyler
RECIPIENT Captain [Goose] Van Schaick
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES Saratoga, Mohawk River, Ticonderoga, Hudson River, Fort
George, Fort Edward, Enemy movements, Revolutionary War,
KEYWORDS scouting parties, along Hudson River, parole and countersign,
Revolutionary War
Saratoga Octo 3d 1776
D Sir
From the various reports which / are circulating It is probable that / the Enemy may make an attempt to / [penetrate?] to the Mohawk River, but / as without more certain Intelligence of / their Intentions It would be Imprudent / to move any of the troops from Tyon= / =deroga I must Intreat You Immedi= / =ately to dispatch at Least three small / scouting partys to lay in composed of / the best men and headed by your most / alert officers to the northward of the / Hudsons River so far as to be about / west from Fort George and there to / search at about twenty most Easterly / party to approach fort George Untill / they meet with the north branch of / Hudsons River the most westerly [^ a second to go] to / go to the northwest Branch of the same / River and the third to range the /
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County, between both, with the most strict orders / to remain three days after they arrive at their / respective stations and upon the discovery of / any Enemy to Hasten either to you or to Fort / Edward or any post nearest them so as that / the Intelligence may be Conveyed to me without / the least Lofs fo time, you will observe to be / very particular in Communicating the number / of the Enemy If any are discovered with the / probable rout they may be supposed to take + / you will also when your first scouts have / been gone three days dispatch another sett / and so on continually, you will not neglect / to give the Scouts a [^ parole +] countersign that no accidents / may happen should they chanced to meet / Let the sign parole be New York and the Countersign / Albany, _ I am D. Sir / Your most Obed / + h Serv
P Schuyler
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[LABEL]
Saratoga Oct.. 30h: 1776
To Colo V Schaick
No. 123[9]
Ent’d. No. 2. Fol: 244-245.
B.B,
No. 38.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
