Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 3016
OBJECT NAME Original Letter, plus typed transcription
DATE October 14, 1776
AUTHOR Philip John Schuyler
RECIPIENT Captain [Cornelius?] Van Dyke [unknown]
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Lt. [Barns?],
PLACES Saratoga, Fort Edward, Fort George
KEYWORDS batteaus, rowing, outfittings, Revolutionary War,
Ticonderoga
Saratoga Octo: 1[4?] 1776
Sir
On receipt with of this you will order all your / men Except a serjeants Guard to be ready / to March as a Guard to a Number of Am= / =munition Waggons that are between this / + Fort Edward on their way to Fort George, / These orders Given you are to take [horse?] / and meet come down to meet the waggons, / Fixing a party at the [Ferry] to Afsist / In Conveying them a crofts the river you / are to see that no halt is made other than / [merely?] to refresh the cattle for an house but / that they proceed all night and you are to / march with them from Fort Edward keeping / out Flanking parties and an advance Guard / as also a rear Guard. The moment You arrive at / Fort George the powder is to be Embarked in / Batteaus Double manned and the men armed / You are to go over the lake with [^It] with [^taking] such men / of your own as are capable of rowing and such /
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Others as you shall require from the Comm- [page torn] / officer at Fort George who is hereby ordered / to Furnish them and give Your Every assistance / In his power, the powder to be covered with / tents taken from any of the troops at / that place. __ I deposed Sir much upon / Your Vigilance + care + Circumspection in / this very Essential Service, as’ ask Lt. / [Barns] [^ to shew you] for his Instructions + regulate / your conduct by them as far as they go
I am Sir / Your most/ Obe serv’
PJ..
Capt. Van Dyke
[LABEL]
Saratoga Oct’r.. 14’h: 1776
To Colo: Van Dyck
No.. 1190.
Ent’d. No. 2. Fol: 219.
B.B.
No. 52.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
