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.
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.