Benedict Arnold to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety

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Cambridge, April 30, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: You have desired me to state the number of cannon, &c˙, at Ticonderoga. I have certain information that there are at Ticonderoga eighty pieces of heavy cannon, twenty brass guns, from four to eighteen pounders, and ten to twelve large mortars. At Skenesborough, on the South-Bay, there are three or four brass cannon. The Fort is in a ruinous condition, and has not more than fifty men at the most. There are large numbers of small arms, and considerable stores, and a sloop of seventy or eighty tons on the lake. The place could not hold out an hour against a vigorous onset. Your most obedient servant,

BENEDICT ARNOLD.

Honourable Joseph Warren, and the honourable Committee of Safety.