If you have any Stores on the Water Side you had better have them removed or secured in time. Boards especially for which we shall be Streights if the Communication above should be cut off. The Enemy have put to nogreat Move on the land Side. made p. s.-- Be Pleased to forward this Intelligence up the River and to Albany. The two new Ships are put in near Colo. Phillips's. A party of Artillery with 2 twelve pounders and 100 Rifle Men are sent up to endeavor to secure them. Duer to Tilghman, October 10.-- There is no Event wh could have happened that could have given me more Uneasiness than the Passage of the Enemys Ships up the River. I cannot persuade myself that there only design is to cut off the Communication of Supplies by Water to our Army at Kingsbridge; though that is an Event which will be highly prejudicial to our Army. Thev certainly mean to send up a Force (if their Ships have not Soldiers the Hylands. In this already on board)"so as to take Possession of the Passes by LandandinDutchess County. It is they will be undoubtedly joined by the Villains in Westchester therefore of the utmost Consequence that a Force should be immediately detached from the Main Body of our Army to occupy these Posts. It is impossible for the Convention to draw out a force which can be depended on from the Counties last mentioned. By the Influence and Artifices of the Capital Tories of this State the Majority of Inhabitants in those Counties are ripe for a Revolt; many Companies of Men have actually been enlisted in the Enemys service, several of whom are now concealed in the Mountains. From the Frontier Counties little Strength can with Safety be drawn, and that not in Time to prevent such an attempt of the Enemy.