Colonel Huntington to General Heath

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Camp Ramapough, 2d December, 1776.

SIR: By the best information there are not more than a thousand of the enemy at Hackensack; their main body at Elizabethtown. Between this and that there is a fine country, of twenty or thirty miles square, full of necessaries that is furnishing supplies to them. Ought they not to be interrupted? Is it not feasible to possess ourselves of Hackensack? Colonel Tyler' s regiment is not yet returned from Toppon. Am doing all in my power to forward my works and barracks; and am, most respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

JED˙ HUNTINGTON.

Major-General Heath.