Letter from Jeffery Amherst to Lt. Col. John Bradstreet regarding construction of boats, hire and pay of laborers, and finance for military campaign, March 5, 1759. Several months later Amherst successfully captured Fort Ticonderoga on the Hudson River from the French.
In this letter the word "battoes" means bateaux -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed, river boat.
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New York March y(?) 5th 1759.
from hence at the intended time.
waggoners is so small that I have made no alteration in that.
reviewed by proper officers at Albany.
for the service of Troops in the Transport Ships.
the sooner he comes to Albany the better.
Pay to the Battoes men vea.(?) and as Mr.
where the Battoes Men yea(?) are to repair.
(something) currency is enclosed herewith. as I will not detain Mr.
only write a few Lines to (something) General Gage.
this letter with the enclosed advertisements.
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797, “Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, March 5, 1759,” Digital Amherst, accessed April 22, 2019, http://digitalamherst.org/items/show/24.