1James McHenry to the Military Committee of New York City, 13 June 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of war, requests the opinion of the gentlemen composing the military committee of New York on the following particulars, with such observations, as they may think proper to favour him with, relative to the defence of the harbour and City. Supposing batteries & block houses to be established at the following points vz. a battery at Sandy Hook, opposite the middle ground; three...