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Skenesborough, July 23, 1776. DEAR GENERAL: I send you down one gondola, and I expect to send you one more the latter end of this week. The vessel and one gondola which are now on the stocks, I expect to have done next week, and will send them down also. I have sent this day to the saw-mill concerning boards, and there were none sawed. But I am going to-morrow to the saw-mill myself, and I will have them sawed as quick as possible, and sent down to you. There are this day twenty-nine more carpenters arrived at this place. There are none of General Waterbury's men arrived yet; so that I find that I'm too weak at present to supply the saw-mills and carpenters with what they want to forward the business. I would be glad if the General would order those two small companies of my regiment now in the Fort here to help me. Then I think I would be able to forward the work in a proper manner. I find thirty men here of Colonel Van Dyke's regiment. I would be glad if the General would please to order them over to Ticonderoga, where part of their regiment now lies; for as they are Militia, I find them to be under no command, and I am tired of being plagued with people of so many different corps as I have been already this year. I would be glad if the General would order some rum over here for the carpenters, for we have none at all; and among rum, I would be glad of one barrel of West-India. I find we want one set of blacksmith's tools more, which I have sent for by express to General Schuyler, at Albany. I have no more; but conclude, dear General, with my compliments to you, and so remain your affectionate friend and humble servant, CORNS. WYNKOOP. To Major-General Gates, at Ticonderoga.
Source: Force, Peter, American Archives: Consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the North American colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American revolution; and of the Constitution of government for the United States, to the final ratification thereof., 5th Series, M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1837-46, Volume I, p. 547
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