Note 888 — Chapter V · (continued 2)
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Cf. letter of the Secret Committee of Congress to Silas Deane in Paris, Aug. 7, 1776 (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 99). Pertaining to this movement is a journal of a campaign from Philadelphia to Paulus Hook, by Algernon Roberts (Sparks MSS.), which is printed in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., vii. 456. It covers Aug. 16-Sept. 17, 1776. Cf. orderly-book in Hist. Mag., ii. 353; and a journal in the Penna. Hist. Soc. Coll., i. 223.