Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Ticonderoga to his Friend in New-York

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN AT TICONDEROGA TO HIS FRIEND IN NEW-YORK, DATED AUGUST 31, 1775.

Colonels Waterbury and Ritzma, under the command of General Montgomery, embarked on Monday night, with twelve hundred men, for the Isle-au-Noix, near St˙ John' s, to stop our enemies' strong vessels by pickets and booms, till the Army and artillery are ready. Your countrymen with united voices cry aloud for your utmost exertion in this time of need, inter arma silent leges. Pray, to arms, to arm' s, my friend! Give your Country testimony of your attachment to the cause in which we are engaged; supineness and lukewarmness breathe destruction to a free people. Our all is at stake. I had rather never again return from the field than live and die a slave.

I am on the eve of embarkation with the remainder of the Army and nine or ten pieces of artillery; four twelve-pounders are gone. You will soon hear of very bloody scenes. Hostilities are already commenced in this quarter, I hope in five days to be one of the possessors of Montreal. The Indian Convention will be very favourable to our cause. Gage has got two thousand nine hundred and fifty barrels of flour from Philadelphia,