Letter from Colonel Griffin to the Board of War: The order to march the Militia to camp without arms is an exceedingly ill-advised plan

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Head-Quarters, Perth-Amboy, September 8,1776.

SIR: I have enclosed a return of the army in the Jerseys, as also a list of the prisoners taken at Long-Island by General Howe' s army. You will please have it published, in order that the friends of the gentlemen may send them such things as they think necessary.

We find, by a resolution of your Convention, they have ordered all the Militia to march to this place, whether armed or unarmed. It has been an exceeding ill-advised plan, as we have not one hundred stand of arms in our stores; nor would we give them to Militia if we had a much larger number. I hope in a few days we shall have enough of the Flying-Camp, with the Jersey Militia, to prevent the enemy from making any incursions on the Jersey side, so that we

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I am, sir, your most obedient servant,

SAML˙ GRIFFIN.

To Richard Peters, Esq˙, Secretary to the Board of War, at Philadelphia.