166 Letters to the Governor and Council

April 7

are not to be collected so soon as their presence are necessary — by
sending for them
I have Inclosed a paper sent me in Your Excellencies Letter not
knowing the danger of its being sent me tho I hoped some directions
wld been given me for the Procuring meat Provisions on immer-
gencies
I am sorry to give Your Excellency so much trouble but my situa-
tion obliges me.

April 7
Red Book
No. 8
Letter 36

[Sam Huntington, President, Philadelphia, to His Excellency
the Governor.]

I have the honor to inclose Copies of Letters received this morn-
ing, which from their Importance it is judged necessary to com-
municate to you, with all possible Expedition.

April 2
Red Book
No. 8
Letter 35

[David Foreman, N. Jersey to His Excell. Samuel Huntington]

By accounts I this day received from New York two of the inhabi-
tants near the Clove took and carried into Gen^l Sir Henry Clinton the
Eastern mail. They received from Sir Henry a gratuity of eighty
guineas for the service. The mail was carried in on Saturday last.
Through the same Channel I am informed a large embarkation is
now in forwardness for Delaware Bay. That Gen^l Clinton will take
the Command of it and take post at New Castle. My informant says
confidence may be put in his information. In justice to his intelli-
gence I must say I have hardly found him to err.
The known disaffection of the lower parts of Delaware and Mary-
land States is also an inducement to me to give credit to the above
account and the advantage to be drawn from early intelligence will I
presume plead my excuse in thus forwarding unasked by your Excel-
lency the above account.

April 5
8 o'clock
P. M.
Red Book
No. 8
Letter 34

[Will: Livingston Trenton to His excellency Sam^l Huntington
President of Congress.]

I this moment received a letter from General Forman accom-
panied with one for your excellency which I presume is upon the
same subject with mine
He informs me that he has intelligence from New York that a
large embarkation is preparing gen^l Clinton to command in person —
their destination for the Delaware and that Clinton is to take post at
New Castle. He adds that he has been seldom disappointed in his
intelligence thro the channel by which he has received the present.
I know that general Formans intelligence has been generally found
true and I thought this account of such importance as immediately
to apply to col Neilson for an express which he readily furnished.