Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

Sprag to whom I refer your Lop 8 in this point. In answer to the Third

there are about four thousand foot @ three hundred horse besides one company which I shall bee able to give a more particular account when the Mustermaster of Dragoons of

In this Govern

shall make his return.

In answer to the Fourth

At New York there is a fortification of four bastions built formerly against the Indians of dry stone

@ earth with sods as a breast-work well @ pleasantly situated for the defence of the Harbor on a made by Hudsons River on the one side and by the sound on the other, It has Thirty-nine Gunns, two Mortar pieces, thirty JJarils of Powder five hundred ball some Bomb-shells @ Granados

point

small arms for three hundred men, one Flanker, the face of the North Bastion, and three points of

Bastions

@ a Courlin has been done @ are rebuilt by mee with lime @ mortar @ all the rest of the

Fort pinnd @ rough-cast with lime since my coming here. And the most of the Guns I found dismounted @ some of them yet continue to bee soe which I

hope to have mounted soe soon as the mills can sawe I am forced to renew all the Batterys with three-inch Plank @ have spoke for new planks for that purpose

And the breast-work upon the wall is so moultered away that its likewise needful to make a reparaThe Officers quarters had formerly a flat roof which I finding to be chargeable to maintain @ that it could not bee kept high, [qu. dry ?] have caused a new roof to bee upon it, as tion thereof.