Quotes by Francis Lewis

At present our greatest anxiety is for the fate of New York which I greatly fear is devoted to distruction. The Ministeral Army on Staten Island are said to be 13,000 strong with a considerable Naval Force, and we hourly expect to hear the City is attacked. If so there is in my opinion little probability of it's being saved.

From the tenor of my Contract with Griffiths, I am induced to believe the Committee has been imposed upon in their Contracts entered into at Phila, and to urge the Orange Company to a complyance with theirs will I fear be attended with difficulties & disappointments, therefore think it reasonable that they Should have the same prices given to others.

I am sorry to find that Capts. Sarly & Kennedy are still detained in your harbor by the ships of War. I hope they will embrace the first good opportunity for going to sea.

I can assure you that Genl. Gates and the Army under his Command were by their last letters in high Spirits, and under no apprehention of danger from that Quarter this Campaigne.

I was favoured with your letter of the 6th Instant, wch. gave me the greater pleasure as it was delivered me by your son.

Should that be the case upon receipt of this as we learn that the Coast is clear we must beg you would endeavor to procure another Master and forward the Vessell with the utmost dispatch as she has a Valuable Cargo for Account of the Congress.