To George Washington from Captain Richard Dodge, 21 August 1775

From Captain Richard Dodge

Chelsea [Mass.] August the 21th 1775

Sir

I would in form your Exelencey that I have Nothing Remarkable to Right[.] I Have I[n] closed the minetes tacken By the Person a Pinted for that Purpos.1 I am your Exelencies most Humble Servent

Richard Dodge Capt.

P.S. Senc I Be[g]an to Right I am in formed that Sum fue of our men have Bin over and Destroied that Litl intrinchment at Noltes Island[.]2 I have Bin Doun to Pottrin Pint3 and have got a Vary good Scow or gondelow and fetched hur up Vary Near my Qu[a]rtes[.] I tack hur to Carey 10 or 12 tun wait.

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. “A Return of the observations of the Day august 21st,” written and signed by Joseph Leach, is in DLC:GW.

2. For the British entrenchment on Noddles Island, see Loammi Baldwin to GW, 17 Aug. 1775, and Dodge to GW, c.20 Aug. 1775.

3. Dodge probably means Pullen Point.

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: To George Washington from Captain Richard Dodge, 21 August 1775
Author: Dodge, Richard
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 21 August 1775

Reference

Cite as: “To George Washington from Captain Richard Dodge, 21 August 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0236. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, p. 342.]

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