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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Sir September 14th 1778 The French Squadron under the command of vice Admiral the Count D Estaing now in the harbour of Boston being in want of Provisions, we have this day given Orders to the Deputy Commissary of Purchases at Albany immediately to purchase three thousand Barrels Flour and to deliver the Same to you which we desire you will take the most speedy and effectual measures to have transported to Boston and there delivered to the Count D Estaing for the use of his fleet.(1) You will take proper receipts on the delivery of the flour which with an Account of All Charges Attending the transportation transmit in due time to this Committee. We have wrote to General Schuyler requesting him to give you his Opinion touching the quickest and best manner of conveying this Flour, and to use his in
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SEPTEMBER 14. 1778
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fluence in assisting you.(2) Relying upon your activity in the Speedy execution of this business, We are sir, Your Hble servants(3)
LB (DNA: PCC Miscellaneous Papers, Marine Committee Letter Book).
1 The Marine Committee's letter of this date to the deputy commissary at Albany is in Paullin, Marine Committee Letters, 2:7. This day the committee also wrote a similar letter to the Albany Committee. Ibid., pp. 6-7.
2 For the Marine Committee's letter of this date to General Schuyler, see ibid., p. 6.
3 After learning from the deputy quartermaster and deputy commissary at Albany that they could not ship flour to Boston in time to reach d'Estaing, John Brown, the Marine Committee's secretary, notified Commissary General Jeremiah Wadsworth on September 29 "that 1500 Barrels flour more than what has already been ordered, should be sent from the Magazine nearest to Boston for the use of the French Fleet." Ibid., p. 11.
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