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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.