Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull

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Cambridge, December 17, 1775.

SIR: I yesterday received the enclosed information from several persons who lately came out from Boston, which I thought it my duty to transmit to you. Whether these troops are embarked I cannot undertake to say; but if they are, it is very probable that their destination is very different from what they have given out, and that was used only as a feint, and to deceive us. It is certain that several ships sailed from thence yesterday morning.

I am, &c˙, GEORGE WASHINGTON.

To Governour Trumbull, Connecticut.

P˙ S˙ Brigadier-General Prescott, as it is said, having treated Colonel Allen with severity, I beg your particular attention lest he should escape.

The same to the New-York Convention.