John McKesson to Colonel Phineas Fanning

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New-York, August 10, 1775.

SIR: The Provincial Congress is favoured with your letter of the 8th instant, and are much obliged by the intelligence. The Congress is sorry to inform you that any farther supply of gunpowder is not to be procured at present. The powder, ball, and flints, sent by Mr˙ Foster and Mr˙ Clarke, are at your disposal, in the whole, two hundred and thirty-three pounds and a half of powder, and six hundred pounds of ball. If you should think it necessary to put any of this ammunition into the hands of the Militia, please to take care that they pay for the same.

Wishing you success, I am, most respectfully, your most obedient humble servant,

JOHN McKESSON.

To Colonel Phineas Fanning, Southold.