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This
torn letter may have been written by Cato Howe, serving in the Continental
Army, to Ephraim Spooner in Plymouth.
September 3, 1777
In camp at Loudens Ferry, 8 miles from Albany
Master Spooner, Sir,
I can’t write myself but I got
somebody make pen & ink tell you I am well and I am very glad I been
so well ever since I come from home.
I have been traveling all over this country up to Fort Stanwicks
where there is nothing but Indians and Tories all the way but soon as the
Regulars & Tories & Indians hear we was coming, they all run away
and left their tents and all their artillery and most everything they had.
Then we come back to this place & suppose we shall go to
fighting I don’t know when but I suppose very soon.
The regulars about 15 miles off --- Tell my wife I well and want to
see him very much. I come for
him one these days when we kill all Regulars.
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