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Albany, March 8, 1776.
SIR: I am honoured with yours of the 4th instant. The
Continental Congress have resolved that Captain Wynkoop
should be employed upon the Lakes under Commodore
Douglass. Whether the latter gentleman means to engage
in that service, I do not know. Of this Congress can very
speedily inform itself, as he resides near New York. Should
he not engage, there is no person I would more willingly
have to command the vessels than Captain Wynkoop. At
any rate, I wish you to send him up the soonest possible,
with a sufficient number of sailors for the two schooners and
sloop.
I am, sir, your most obedient and very humble servant,
To Nathaniel Woodhull, Esq˙, &c˙, &c.
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PH˙ SCHUYLER.