to go with us. We got on board the vessels about eleven o’clock in the morning, and he confined three of us on board each vessel; men sat over us with fixed bayonets; and so kept us till sometime in the evening, when we were dismissed and suffered to return. We reasoned with the people on board the vessels all the while we were there, and convinced some of them of their errour, who declared they had been deceived by Colonel Arnold. After we returned to the fort, called up Colonel Hinman, who ordered Lieutenant Halsey, with twenty-five men, to return again to the vessels and get what people he could on board to join him, and bring one or both vessels to the fort, which was all settled the next day. Colonel Sullivan was much insulted while we were on board the vessels, chiefly by Mr. Brown, one of Colonel Arnold’s Captains. Captain Stevens, who is waiting while I write these lines, will not wait longer, or you should hear more particulars. I expect you will have a full account from the gentlemen Committee after they have laid it before their Congress. Captain Elijah Babcock can give a full account of those matters; he tells me he shall be at Hartford in a few days. Shall give further accounts from New-York.

I am, Sir, at command, your Honour’s most obedient and humble servant,

EDWARD MOTT.

To the Hon. Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., Governour.

ETHAN ALLEN TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

July 6, 1775.

HONOURED SIR:Your letter of the eighth ultimo gave me to understand that my painful services, in behalf of my Country, were noticed by your Honour; my letters having received your patronage, were received by the honourable Continental Congress with that additional lustre they needed.

The notice your Honour, as well as Grand Continental Congress, I may add the Provincial Congress of New-York, hath taken of my zeal in the common cause, hath more confirmedly and authoritatively determined me to hazard my life in the same, and exert the small abilities with which I am endowed, to the utmost, as I have received assurances from both Congresses of shortly being admitted to an honourable preferment in the Army. I am now on my passage between New-York and Albany from those Congresses, in company with Mr. Seth Warner, my companion, with directions to form a battalion of seven companies of Green Mountain Boys; they are expert in the use of fire-arms.

As to our past services, it is recommended by the Grand Continental Congress that the Government of New-York pay the same as to gratuities, mentioned in your Honour’s letter; a little of that from Connecticut would be thankfully received, as we served equally in the night as in the day, in making a conquest of Lake Champlain; for which extreme service we are to be paid the same as the honourable General Assembly of Connecticut have established relative to their soldiery, and that none of our officers in that service be considered in a higher rank than Captain.

Your Honour’s inviolable attachment, and unshaken and religious perseverance in support of the liberties of America, manifested from the era of the detestable Stamp Act, hath not only entitled, but gained you the love and esteem of every friend to this Country, of whatever rank or denomination.

That your Honour may long live and sway that respectable Colony in the way of virtue and liberty, and after this transitory life receive the unspeakable reward of social virtue, is the sincere desire of him who is, with the greatest respect, your Honour’s devoted, most obedient and humble servant,

ETHAN ALLEN.

To the Honourable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., Governour of the Colony of Connecticut.

CAPTAIN ANGUS McDONALD TO COLONEL ALEXANDER McDOUGALL.

Fairfield Jail, July 6, 1775.

SIR:I wrote you a few days ago concerning my close confinement, which I think very hard and contrary to promise, as I expected to be treated more like a gentleman than a highwayman, for it really never was my intent to offer to make my escape from my confinement, till such times as I should be properly released; or if I am not released, I must only make my application to be exchanged. But at the same time I hope Colonel McDougall will be good enough to speak to the “gentlemen of the Congress in regard to my having the liberty of the yard; to have the air is all I desire, and if I break, through my liberty I will suffer death, or such other punishment as I shall deserve. This day my wife is come here, if she will be permitted to stay with me, as General Wooster told me to send for her, and that I should have the more liberty while she staid with me. And your goodness in this point I much depend on in this case, for I know one word from Colonel McDougall will be sufficient for my request; and in so doing I shall forever remain your ever humble and obedient servant,

ANGUS MCDONALD.

To Colonel Alexander McDougall.

GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL TO GENERAL SCHUYLER.

Hartford, July 6, 1775.

SIR: I received your favour of the thirtieth of June, enclosing a copy of the resolution of the honorable Continental Congress, and immediately laid them before the General Assembly of the Colony. They would have been happy to have found themselves in a situation to have complied fully with the request you were charged with to them; but such is the exhausted state of our Treasury, in consequence of the very vigorous efforts they have made, and are daily making in the common cause, that it was impossible for them, consistent to their previous engagements, to furnish you with more than fifteen thousand; and even this sum cannot be spared immediately, but shall be got ready and forwarded, as you shall direct, with all possible despatch, and I hope will be at Mr. Livingston’s within . . . . days at farthest. Our inability, with concurrence acknowledge, with respect to the other most important article is still greater. All that we can do is to deliver to Captain Douglass forty half-barrels, which he will immediately proceed with agreeable to your order. Our Engineer (Col. Mott ) at Ticonderoga, has requested that a commander for one of the armed vessels upon Lake George, may be sent up from this Colony—a Captain Niles, with whom he is acquainted, and who is probably well qualified for the office. But as you can best judge of the nature of this service, and the necessity of sending up this person, you will give me leave to expect your directions upon this project, which I shall very readily conform to. I enclose you copy of a paper of intelligence I have received from Mr. Deanc, which may perhaps be of some use to you.

I am, &c.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL.

N. B. Mr. Deane requests that this intelligence may not be made publick.

Extract of a Narrative and Remarks made by a Gentleman who left CANADA on the fourteenth JUNE last: enclosed in Governour TRUMBULL’S Letter to General SCHUYLER, dated JULY 6, 1775.

The Indians in Canada had heard of the present unhappy disputes subsisting between Great Britain and the Colonies, and took the opportunity of my being among them to inquire into the origin and reasons of the same.

I gladly improved all such opportunities to inform them of the ground of the present controversy, and carefully Inculcated upon them that they themselves were nearly interested in the event of our present glorious struggles for liberty and freedom. The lndians, by what I could then learn, pretty generally determined to take no part in the quarrel. Things remained in this situation with regard to the Indians, when the Provincial Troops reduced the fortresses of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and took the King’s sloop at St. John’s. The Indians at Caughnawaga were then sent to, by the Commander-in-Chief at Montreal, and desired to march a number of their men in company of the Regular Troops, to oppose the Colonists, who, it was reported, were on their way from St. John’s to beseized Montreal. The Indians refused to join them, or in any manner intermeddle in the affair. The chief warriour came directly to inform me that he had refused to join the Regular Troops, and that they had determined in Council, that if any of their young warriours should take up the hatchet against their brethren of the Provinces, they would