I do hereby Certify I have Mustered in the Engineer Department at Horns Hook and Fort Knyphausen under the Command of Capt Alexander Mercer Commanding Engineer Six Foremen, Seventy Carpenters, twenty three Sawyers and four Labourers, excepting three Carpenters sick as above specified. Jos GARDNER, Qu M 17th Lt. Dragoons Acting Comm3 of Musters Brooklyn 26th August 1781 MUSTER ROLL of Carpenters, Sawyers &c employed at this place under the direction and Orders of Captain Alexander Mercer Commanding Engineer. Made some calculations on the Expence of Horses and Ordered a particular Return to be given in by Captain Chads of all the Vessels in each Department Chartered and Certified by him with the prices pr Ton at which they are hired. Then adjourned till Thursday next. Thursday 6th September 1781. The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Monday. Present His Excellency Lieut General Robertson Lieutenant General Campbell Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln Received and read the Return of Vessels certified by Cap of last meeting, with a Letter from Mr Skelton as follows:SIR: In compliance with your Excellency's directions on Monday small Crafts, Boats, Boatmen, and Batteaux Men, for which last with one months pay respectively annexed to each, agreeable of the Board of General Officers under that date. His Excellency Lieut. General Robertson Return of Vessels Employed in His Majesty's Service in the Captain Henry Chads Agent, with a Month's Hire annexed to |