The Virginia Gazette

WILLIAMSBURG, June 27.

Extract of a letter from general Weedon, dated camp at Middle Brook, June 13, 1777.

The enemy have assembled all their troops at Brunswick, and a formidable appearance they make. From New York, Long Island, Amboy, and the communication from thence to Boston, which are arrived in a great measure of troops. Howe has come over in person, and seems determined to put his much talked of plan in execution. However, if we can but give him a drub over his forces, the campaign will be pretty well ended; and I have great hopes this may be done, as our army are in the highest spirits, and well supplied with every necessary implement for the purpose. It is now as well arranged as any army in the universe, and it is a pleasure and honour to belong to it. Every thing goes on with the greatest regularity. The troops are well clothed, well armed, and there is the greatest abundance of good provisions; the hospitals are furnished with every accommodation necessary for the sick (of which, thank God, we have but few) the ablest surgeons on the continent employed to attend them, and, in short, so differently circumstanced from what we have been accustomed to, that the continental army is visited and admired by thousands from all parts of the world. Putnam is in the fighting way accumulates: the drums sound to arms. Adieu. God bless you.