166 CALENDAR OF THE GREENE CORRESPONDENCE. [April 6, 
Brooks, D.: 
1779.—May 24.—Directed by His Excellency to apply to Gen. 
Greene for wagons to convey certain stores. Vol. vi, No. 6. 
BROWN, BENJAMIN : 
1779.— October 18.—Finds from the books that Mr. Joseph Webb 
is charged with £1500. Account brought from Ledger A, 
which book Mr. Story has locked up. Vol, 111, Na. 29. 
Brown, Ws. (Dr.): 
1779.—October 2. General Hospital, Otterhill. — Asking for a 
horse for the bearer, Mr. Scott, who is Commissary for the hos- 
pital and is obliged to ride about the neighborhood a good 
deal. Vol. iii, No. 30. 
BUCHANAN, JOHN (Capt.) : 
1779.—October r. West Point.—Desiring authority to impress 
vessels for the transportation of the Carolina brigade. 
Vol. iii, No. 28. 
BULL, SAMUEL : 
1779.—Movember 15. Middleton. — Dimensions and number of 
boats at Chatham shipyard. Vola; No vee 
CALDWELL, JAMES: 
1779.— October 27. Springfield.—Informing him of the advent of 
the enemy the day before and the damage to property. Asks 
him to use his influence with His Excellency to have the whole 
or part of the Jersey brigade stationed somewhere near West- 
field. The magazines of hay are of vast importance and the 
State troops on duty are insufficient even to alarm the country— 
7. e.: the enemy reached Bound Brook a little after sunrise 
and the alarm was given at Elizabethtown around 11 o’clock. 
4000 militia ordered by Legislature to be in readiness but only 
to turn out at the advent of the French fleet. Stores in im- 
minent danger. 
(Note.—The foregoing letter is from Rev. Dr. Caldwell, 
whose wife was killed by the British on June 7, 178Q, and him- 
self shot in November, 1781. They left nine children. ) 
Vol. viii, No. 12. 
