I have recd your favor of the 29th ulto. It will be some time before Major Barber, the only Assistant Inspector at present with the Army, can attend upon you—perhaps not till toward the latter end of the Month. By a letter from Colo. Stewart, he may be expected the beginning of this, and will, I dare say, call upon you agreeable to his promise. If his health should not permit him to come on—Major Barber will go down as soon as his engagements will admit.

I have determined upon the following arrangement for the Winter Quarters of your Regt—One Company at the Post at Dobbs’s Ferry—one at the Block House near Sufferans—& one at Ringwood—The remainder to be contined as compactly as possible near the Yellow House at Pompton—You will immediately detach the Company for Dobbs’s Ferry—The Captain will put himself under the orders of Lt Colo. Smith the Commandant of the Post—This Company is to be releived every Fortnight—Those at Sufferans and Ringwood as often as you think proper—Their object will be to stop all straglers and suspicious persons.

I must again beg your own particular attention to endeavouring to prevent the intercourse with the enemy—By a little management you may perhaps make yourself master of the chain of communication and then give the trade a heavy Blow.

When the Inspector visits you, he may easily go round to the detached Companies. I am &ca.