I now transmit for your Excellency’s Information the Copy of a Letter which I received yesterday from Colo. Willet. From this Communication your Excellency will perceive that since the Enemy have taken Post at Oswego, our Western Frontiers are invaded by very formidable Parties and I am apprehensive unless the Force in that Quarter is augmented the whole of the Settlements on the Mohawk River will be destroyed or abandoned. I formerly mentioned to your Excellency that I was authorized to call into actual Service any additional number of the Militia, to reinforce the Army, which during the course of the Campaign you might think proper to require so that if your Excellency should conceive it proper to increase the Force on the Frontiers and that a farther Draft from the Militia will be necessary to enable you to do it, I will most chearfully comply with such Requisition as you may think proper to make of me for this Purpose. Mr Duer a few Days since informed me that he had provided and was preparing to forward a Supply of Hard Bread and salted Meat for the Troops in Tryon County but that they suffered great inconvenience and risque of Loss for want of some kind of Building as a Magazine—there being none suitable for the purpose at any of the Posts in that Quarter. I have the Honor to be with great Respect & Esteem Your Excellency’s most Obedt Servant