Ordnance Stores at Crown Point and Ticonderoga

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Ordnance Stores at CROWN POINT, JUNE 23, 1775.

Seven punches for vents of guns, 14 wooden setters, 3 scoops for shells, 1 pair brass scales, 14 mallets for driving fuzes, 1 set of measures for powder, 310 pounds of slow match, 118 pounds shot, 580 twelve-pound shot, 580 nine-pound shot, 580 six-pound shot, 1,430 grape shot, 68 shells for an eight-inch howitzer, 370 shells, 6 sponges with ramrods, 6 wagon bodies, 906 wheels of all sorts, 22 wadhooks with ramrods, 1 cross-cut saw, 1 mill whipsaw.

At TICONDEROGA. — Three guns and triangle, 1 reparable and 3 useless, 6 gages for shot for twelve-pounders, 3 copper hoops, 6 copper ladles, 12 iron ladles, shells, shot, &c., in vast quantities.

Colonel Arnold informs that he has just bought four oxen for use, price twenty-eight Pounds; six cows, at four Pounds per head, and twenty sheep; which he will turn over to the Connecticut forces, if the Commander-in-Chief will receive them.

Also, further informs he has engaged twenty seamen, two armourers, and two gunners.