| Description | "The two Armies at Cambridge are still within their entrenchments", the American army is 20000 strong and has encroached upon Gage's by taking possession of Plough Hill, Carleton is strongly entrenched with regulars, Canadians and Indians at St John's and busily engaged in building boats on the Lake, the Provincials have embarked there with the intention of destroying them, a congress of Indians has been held at Albany, he believes, to recommend neutrality to them, which Colonel Johnson had all along desired |