SCHUYLER, Philip John, Major General, Continental Army. Copy letter TO JOHN HANCOCK, Albany, 13 January 1776. 3 pages, 4to, neat repair to center fold, WITH A FOUR-LINE ENDORSMENT BY GEORGE WASHINGTON. SCHUYLER ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF RICHARD MONTGOMERY TO WASHINGTON.chuyler, in charge of the Northern Department, had written to Congress with news of the death of Richard Montgomery in the failed American attack on Quebec on 31 December. Schuyler had written "...My Amiable & Gallant Friend Genl Montgomery is no more, he fell in an unsuccessful Attack on Quebec...My feelings on this unhappy Occasion are too Poignant to admit of Expression...In the present Critical Situation of Affairs It is Evident to me, that nothing but the immediate March of a Body of Troops into Canada, can secure that Province...Only one hundred & Sixty were at Quebec with Col. Livingston...The very great Distance of Congress from here will appologize for a Request I shall Immediately make to General Washington to send three Thousand Men into Canada." Schuyler is planning to attack the loyalist strongholds in Tryon County: "...I propose to march from hence with what of the Militia I can collect, perhaps I shall something exceed the Tories in Number,"; he asks that "If any Troops can be Spared from Jersey I intreat Congress to send them up That Tyconderoga may have a garrison." Schuyler's letter reached Hancock in Philadelphia on January 17 (see Burnett, Letters to Delegates, 1:317, fn.4). Two days later, mindful of the threat from Canada, Congress voted to send several battalions to Schuyler. The present copy was likely made at Hancock's direction to be forwarded to Washington, who was conducting the seige of Boston. Washington endorsed it on p.4: "Copy of Genl. Schuyler's Letter to the Contl. Congress. 13th Jan. 1776."

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SCHUYLER, Philip John, Major General, Continental Army. Copy letter TO JOHN HANCOCK, Albany, 13 January 1776. 3 pages, 4to, neat repair to center fold, WITH A FOUR-LINE ENDORSMENT BY GEORGE WASHINGTON. SCHUYLER ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF RICHARD MONTGOMERY TO WASHINGTON.chuyler, in charge of the Northern Department, had written to Congress with news of the death of Richard Montgomery in the failed American attack on Quebec on 31 December. Schuyler had written "...My Amiable & Gallant Friend Genl Montgomery is no more, he fell in an unsuccessful Attack on Quebec...My feelings on this unhappy Occasion are too Poignant to admit of Expression...In the present Critical Situation of Affairs It is Evident to me, that nothing but the immediate March of a Body of Troops into Canada, can secure that Province...Only one hundred & Sixty were at Quebec with Col. Livingston...The very great Distance of Congress from here will appologize for a Request I shall Immediately make to General Washington to send three Thousand Men into Canada." Schuyler is planning to attack the loyalist strongholds in Tryon County: "...I propose to march from hence with what of the Militia I can collect, perhaps I shall something exceed the Tories in Number,"; he asks that "If any Troops can be Spared from Jersey I intreat Congress to send them up That Tyconderoga may have a garrison." Schuyler's letter reached Hancock in Philadelphia on January 17 (see Burnett, Letters to Delegates, 1:317, fn.4). Two days later, mindful of the threat from Canada, Congress voted to send several battalions to Schuyler. The present copy was likely made at Hancock's direction to be forwarded to Washington, who was conducting the seige of Boston. Washington endorsed it on p.4: "Copy of Genl. Schuyler's Letter to the Contl. Congress. 13th Jan. 1776."