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Order to pay Timothy Walker one hundred and seventy one pounds as an additional bounty for soldiers he is "desired to muster."

Order to pay Colonel Joshua Wingate advance wages.

Regarding creating an arrangement of the regiments in the Brigade.

Discharging militia of New Jersey to New York.

Boys being sent to be trained as drummers and fifers. Plans on giving some money for their care on the way.

Description of supplies and preparations for continuing war, including General [Griffith] Rutherford's plans to march two thousand men to the "Middle and Valley settlements" [Cherokee settlements in the western Carolinas]. Possible help from Virginians. Recounts violence in the area.

Requesting payment for the sloop Anna he and "R R Livingston" bought as part of a secret committee for the use of the state of New York.

Saw fleet with Hessian division and Howe. Notes rumors of truce between Washington and Howe.

Money Order for three hundred pounds to Colonel Jonathan Fitch for tents and clothing for the Continental Army in the Northern Department.

Providing information on Tory spies, particularly Isaac Jones (1728-1813) from Weston. While Dashwood was in the home of Dr. Silvester Gard[i]ner (1708-1786), "a Notted Tore," Mr. Wheaton and his sons visited, and their news of Jones's escape was greeted happily. Calls Jones "our fri[e]nd" and believes he will provide as much information as he can, which requires he "keep in with the pore Devels as he called them or he would not be abl[e] to give them any mor[e] Information." Jones informed Wheaton that Captain O'Brien, possibly Jeremiah O'Brien (1744-1818), was at Newbery collecting provisions to deliver to Machias, and suggests that he get an Admiral to send a ship. Acknowledges that much has escaped his memory but heard enough to "Consider that sd Jones was Gre[a]t an Enemy to America as any in itt."