Letter from General Schuyler to Meshech Weare: Acknowledges the receipt of eleven hundred and forty-seven Pounds in specie

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Albany, July 1, 1776.

SIR: I am honoured with your letter of the 21st ultimo by Benjamin Giles, Esq˙, who delivered me one thousand one hundred and forty-seven pounds one shilling lawful, equal to three thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and a half in specie, for which I have passed duplicate receipts. I am exceedingly sorry that the necessity of any further supply of hard money seems to be unhappily superseded by our troops evacuating Canada. I do not mean this, however, as an opinion that no more ought to be sent, as Congress may have views which I am unacquainted with.

By a letter from General Sullivan, of the 24th ultimo, I have reason to believe that our Army is now on its way to Crown Point. I leave this to-morrow in order to join it. Every exertion must be made to prevent the enemy from crossing Lake Champlain, and I have a confident hope that we shall be able to retard their progress by a superior naval force, which is daily increasing, insomuch that we have already built and equipped two gondolas, and I hope to have two more every week for a succession of at least five or six weeks.

We wish much to have the expected reinforcement of

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I am, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient, humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

To the Honourable Meshech Weare, Esq˙, President of the Colony of New-Hampshire.