Letter from Captain Billings to the New-York Committee of Safety

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CAPTAIN BILLINGS TO NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Fort Montgomery, April 22, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Your order of the 13th ultimo came to hand. In compliance to the same, sent one of my Sergeants immediately to the County, and to two of the Precinct Committees in Dutchess, with a copy of what I received from Congress, requesting their assistance, with as much despatch as possible, and acquainting them that I had but seven guns, and about forty blankets, which I had (with difficulty) purchased in the country. I have written to Colonel Ritzema, desiring to know whether I am to move before I get supplied. We have one battery finished, excepting the floor, and are now employed in cutting and making fascines. Garrison sickly. I send enclosed the return I received from the County Committee, respecting my subalterns, and shall be obliged by an answer to the same, as well as that respecting the two guns found in the barn on my passage from New-York. Mean time, I am, gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servant,

ANDREW BILLINGS.

To the Chairman of the Committee of Safety, New-York.