Information by Captain John Hamilton

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Extract of a Letter, dated Falmouth, July 26th, 1775:

"It is confidently said that ten thousand Hanoverians, and some Regiments from Great Britain, are to be sent out to Boston, as re-enforcement to General Gage' s Army; that General Gage is to be recalled, at his own request, and Sir Jeffery Amherst is to succeed him."

Ordered, That a copy thereof, and also a copy of the extract of a Letter from Falmouth, be transmitted to the Continental Congress.