1. Blanch’s letter to Huntington, dated 25 June at Closter, N.J., reads: “at four oClock in the afternoo⟨n⟩ The fleet Laid at anchor oppersit Philips Where thay Landed abut Three Thousand Men as neer as I Could Judge I Saw them March up towar⟨d⟩ Tokeho [Tuckahoe] the fleet Consist of Bet[w]een fifty or Sixty Vessels two frigates and the Other Cheafly Transports High Water about Seven OClock this afternoon. … N.B. if you Chuse to Send to me I Can Let you Know almost Every Hour in the Day About there Movement⟨s⟩ In the River oppersi⟨t⟩ Cloester” (DLC:GW). For the enemy troops landed at Philipse Manor, N.Y., see Lydenberg, Robertson Diaries description begins Harry Miller Lydenberg, ed. Archibald Robertson, Lieutenant-General Royal Engineers: His Diaries and Sketches in America, 1762–1780. New York, 1930. description ends , 233–34; see also Battle of Springfield, 23–24 June, editorial note; Henry Willis to GW, 24 June; and Nathanael Greene to GW, 25 June (second letter).