Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
Your favr. 19 last month Came Safe to hand.1 I2 am Very Certain our Mittle here is insufficant, for the purpose of making Cannon, even of the Smallest size. I am also Certain we shall want many more than we are at Present possest of in the Spring. I am Clear in it that it woud. be best for you at the southward, to be Contemplaiting Some Method by which we may be supplyd. I cannot send you a List of any unappropriated Cannon as they are all Disposed, off, and we have Need of many more than we have Amongts us, and I make no Doubt we must be Obligd. to Apply to you for a supply even thô we shoud. risque them by water. I refer you to The Hon. Colo. Palmer for what information is Necessary respecting 156Powder Mills, Salt Petre &c. I also Condole with you the loss of the brave & amiable Genl. Montgumry, and our repulse at Canadia. I hope you are taken every Method for the intire reduction of that important City. Please to desire Mr. John Adams to Send them Books I mentiond. to him, by the first oppo. My best regards to all your Brother Deligates, and Am respectfully your Most Humble servt.,
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Moses Gill (1733/4–1800) represented Princeton in the Provincial Congress (1774–1775) and was elected to the Council in 1775, serving until 1783. At the time of his death, he was acting governor (Francis Everett Blake, History of the Town of Princeton [Princeton, 1915], 1:270–277).