James Bowdoin to Massachusetts Council

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Boston, December 2, 1776.

SIR: The enclosed letter from General Lee is just received, which I beg leave to communicate to your Honours for your consideration.

Sergeant Dawes has just informed me that there is not a man left at Dorchester heights, by which the cannon there may be rendered useless and the barracks burnt by any person inimical and evil-minded enough to execute so infernal a business. I have desired him to attend your Honours, that you may know from him the state in which the posts at Dorchester are left, and he now waits on you accordingly.

I am, with great respect, your Honours' most obedient servant,

JAMES BOWDOIN.

I sent your Honours, per Mr˙ Loring, in the morning, a letter from Mr˙ Gibson, Secretary to the Treasury Board at Philadelphia, which I suppose he has communicated.