1. Major General Stirling had written New Jersey governor William Livingston on 10 June to explain his actions calling out the militia to oppose the British incursion into the state on 7 June and his command on 8 June of a corps charged by GW with pursuit of the enemy force. At the end of his letter, after explaining the deployment of the Continental units and militia following his pursuit, Stirling wrote: “This is our Situation, the Enemy remain behind their lines on the [Elizabethtown] point and appear to have reinforced more or less these two days, but without any movement. what their designs, I can only Conjecture, I think they must mean to fatigue & tire out the Militia and when they leave us to attack the Army, or that they are in dayly expectation of troops from Carolina and wait till they are able to Attack us in Still greater force and make sure work of it, It will be highly necessary therefore to make our selves as strong as possible by getting in all the Militia we Can, The Hunterdon Militia are not yet Come in and only one of the Midlesex Regiment[s,] Colonel Neilsons, nor any from Burlington County, I could wish your Excellency would quicken these with further orders from your self or General Dickenson, These are his Excellency General Washingtons Ideas & Wishes as well as my own, and with His ⟨Co⟩mpliments to your Excellency he further ⟨d⟩esires me to say he would wish that General Dickenson would Join us as soon as possible, for his presence is absolutely Necessary in Arraingeing the Militia” (DNA:PCC, item 68; see also Battle of Connecticut Farms, 7–8 June).