In Council of Safety, Philadelphia, November 14th 1776, 12 o'clock, Thursday : Sir, We have certain intelligence that the enemy has actually sailed from New-York five hundred ships for this city ... As you value the safety of your country, and all that is dear and valuable to men, we most earnestly solicit your immediate assistance, and that you will march all your battalion to this city without the least delay. . - Wharton, Thomas, Jun., 1735-1778 (Printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1776)