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James Bowdoin to Meshech Weare

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Boston, December 11, 1776.

SIR: The Council have received your letter of the 10th instant. They have not since the 7th instant received any intelligence with respect to the movement of the enemy' s ships at Rhode-Island, excepting a letter from Dartmouth, a town belonging to this State, which informs that the enemy landed about three thousand troops on the morning of the 8th instant, near the town of Newport, in Rhode-Island; but as we have not as yet received any confirmation of this report from Providence, the truth of it is not fully credited.

Enclosed you have a copy of a letter we have just received from General Schuyler, and the resolution passed by the General Assembly of this State in consequence of it.

In the name of the Council. I am, with great respect, sir, your most humble servant,

JAMES BOWDOIN.

The Hon˙ Meshech Weare, Esq˙, President of the Council of New-Hampshire.