Of the last-named excellent suggeatiim, tieneral WiisliinKton subsequently wrote, * * * "but I <liil not tliink myself at liberty to *' urge or retjuest liis " [Gnrermtr 7'ri(iHt(f/r«] " interest in forming tli4' "Camp of six thousand men, as the levies, directed by Congress, on the *' third of June, to be furnished for the defense of this place, by that " Governniont, are but little more than one-thiiil come in. .\t the same "time, the proiKL-iition I think a goo<l one. if it could be carried into "execution. In case the enemy should attempt to efTect a landing "above Kin^bridge and to cut ofl' the communication lietween tlii^ "City and the country, an .\rniy to hang on their rear would distress " them exceedingly.'' {General W'anhimjUm the Pre'<idenl of the Vvnti- HCiituJ t'«ii</re«!, "Xk« York, Hi July, 17715. "')

See, also, the (ienerars unusually warm approval of the project, in his latter to the tk)nvention, " HE.vn-yii.vRTEiia, Xew York, July I'J, 1776."

^ General twforge CliiitoH iv Gentral Washingtoti, ''FoRT MoNTOOHF.RY, "July 23, 1776."

three miles of Fort Montgomery ; plundered the house of a poor man -- taking, among other things, " a " handkerchief full of Salad and a Pig so very poor " that a crow would scarcely deign to eat it" -- setting the house on fire, when it was left ; and then, returning to the place where the tender had run aground, in the morning, cast her anchor, where, on the following day, the /%a')ji.r joined her.*