1. See GW to Dayton, 27 March. The duplicate has not been found.

2. British major Frederick Mackenzie, stationed in New York City, wrote in his diary entry for 31 March: “A Rebel Mail going from the Eastward to Philadelphia, was brought in this Morning by Lieut John [James] Moody of the 4th Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers. He went from hence for this very purpose the 25th Inst and after traversing the woods and Mountains with two other men and a guide, & being four days concealed near New Windsor, he at last intercepted the Post boy with the Mail on the 29th, about 5 Miles from that place, and brought them safe in.

“Mr Moody received 100 Guineas for executing this enterprize.

“This Mail contains a great number of letters, amongst which are several from Mr Washington, from whence no doubt The Commander in Chief has received very material information” (Mackenzie Diary description begins Diary of Frederick Mackenzie Giving a Daily Narrative of His Military Service as an Officer of the Regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Years 1775–1781 in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1930. description ends , 2:497–98). The mail interception, which the party’s leader inaccurately recollected as occurring on 15 March, succeeded after an attempt earlier that month had failed (see Moody’s Narrative description begins Lieut. James Moody’s Narrative of His Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government, Since the Year 1776. 2d ed. London, 1783. Reprint. New York, 1968. description ends , 34–37).

3. See Dayton to GW, 30 March. The newspaper has not been identified. Mackenzie wrote in his diary entry for 30 March: “The Expedition fleet has now been 10 days out, and no account of them (except that brought by the Master of one of the express vessels from Portsmouth, who fell in with them off the Capes of the Delaware). … If any misfortune had happened to that fleet, we should have heard of it by this time from the Rebels” (Mackenzie Diary description begins Diary of Frederick Mackenzie Giving a Daily Narrative of His Military Service as an Officer of the Regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Years 1775–1781 in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1930. description ends , 2:497).