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Camp at Cambridge, August 10, 1775.
SIR: Your favour of the second instant is duly received, but it is out of my power to comply with the request it contains of forwarding commissions. All those I have yet received from the honourable Continental Congress are far short of the number required in this Army; for which reason, when at New-York, and by letter from this, I directed General Schuyler to apply to the Congress at Philadelphia for those of his department, as the shortest and easiest mode, to which I must also now refer you.
We have had no occurrence in the camp for several days worthy of notice. But by some advices from Boston, and
I am, with the most respectful regards to yourself and the body over whom you preside, your most obedient and
very humble servant,
GO˙ WASHINGTON.
The Honourable Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esquire, President of the Provincial Congress at New-York.
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several concurring circumstances, we have great reason to suspect a part, or the whole of the Ministerial Troops are about to move. New-York is the place generally talked of as their destination. I give you the intelligence as it came to me, but do not vouch for its authenticity.