Second Company: John Davis, Captain; Abraham Vedder, First Lieutenant; Jacob Simon, Second Lieutenant.

Third Company: Robert Yates, Captain; Cobus Crommel, First Lieutenant; Peter Yates, Second Lieutenant; Hendrick Lewis, Ensign.

Fourth Company: John Fisher, Captain; John Wemple, First Lieutenant; Myndert W. Quackenboss, Second Lieutenant; Garret G. Van Brockler, Ensign.

Fifth Company: Samuel Pettingill, Captain; Thomas Caine, Lieutenant; Samuel Barnhart, Jun., Ensign.

Sixth Company: Abner French, Captain; David Mc-Master, Lieutenant; Peter Vanderlinden, Ensign.

Seventh Company: Lewis Croat, Captain; Jeremiah Staats, First Lieutenant; Christian Earnest, Second Lieutenant; Emanuel De Graff, Ensign.

Eighth Company: Abraham Hodges, Captain; Joseph Yeamans, First Lieutenant; Abel Hunt, Second Lieutenant; Amos Bennet, Ensign.

Hanyoost Herkheimer, Colonel; Peter Bellinger, Lieutenant-Colonel; Hanyoost Shoemaker, Major; John Demooth, Adjutant.

First Company: John Eisenlord, Caplain; John Kayser, First Lieutenant; Adam Bellinger, Second Lieutenant; John Smith, Ensign.

Second Company: John Petry, Captain; Hanyoost M. Petry, First Lieutenant; Hanyoost H. Petry, Second Lieutenant; William Empie, Ensign.

Third Company: Daniel Petry, Captain; Peter Volts, First Lieutenant; Marx Raspack, Second Lieutenant; George Hellmer, Ensign.

Fourth Company: Frederick Bellinger, Captain; Henry Harty, First Lieutenant; John Demooth, Second Lieutenant; Peter J. Weaver, Ensign.

Fifth Company: Peter Bellinger, Captain; Jacob Basehawe, First Lieutenant; Nicholas Staring, Second Lieutenant; John P. Bellinger, Ensign.

Sixth Company: Hanyoost Herkheimer, Captain; Frederick Ahrendorff, First Lieutenant; Tinus Clapsaddle, Second Lieutenant.

Seventh Company: Rudolph Shoemaker, Captain; Dieterick Stale, First Lieutenant; Frederick Shoemaker, Second Lieutenant.

Eighth Company: George Herkheimer, Captain; Frederick Fox, First Lieutenant; Archibald Armstrong, Second Lieutenant; Hanyoost Tygert, Ensign.

Ninth Company: William Tygert, Captain; Jacob Volts, First Lieutenant; George Wents, Second Lieutenant; Frederick Frank, Ensign.

By order of the Committee:

NICHOLAS HERCHKEIMER, Chairman.

GENERAL WOOSTER TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Oyster Ponds, August 27, 1775.

SIR: Your favour of the 18th instant came duly to hand, and I should have sailed for Harlem without loss of time, had not I received the following important intelligence from General Washington, viz:

“August 23, 1775. Yesterday I received advice from Boston, that a number of transports have sailed on a second expedition for fresh provisions. As they may pursue the same course, only advancing further, we think Montauk Point, on Long-Island, a very probable place of their landing. I have therefore thought it best to give you the earliest intelligence, but I do not mean to confine your attention or vigilance to that place; you will please to extend your views as far as the mischief may be probably extended.”

Thus far the intelligence.

I would further inform you, that the Kingfisher, last Wednesday, went up the Sound, with several small cutters, reconnoitring the north side of the island; and Thursday there followed past this place two topsail vessels, which I apprehend to be transports, as they fired two signal guns when they went through the Race. I would therefore recommend it to the Provincial Congress to keep a good guard over Queen’s County, as I imagine their design is to get stock from Huntington, Lloyd’s Neck, or Flushing;

and as we hope to secure all the stock upon this part of the island, you may expect the Boston fleet will proceed further up the Sound.

I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

DAVID WOOSTER.

To P.V.B. Livingston, Esq.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Albany, Sunday, August 27, 1775, 6 o’clock, A. M.

DEAR SIR: Your Excellency’s favours of the 14th and 20th instant were delivered me last night.

I left Ticonderoga on Thursday, the 17th instant, and hoped to have returned in four days; but on my arrival at Saratoga I received information that a large body of Indians of the Six Nations were to be here on Tuesday last, and that my presence was indispensably necessary. I therefore attended, and on Wednesday the congratulatory ceremony was performed, and on Friday the treaty, agreeable to their request, was opened by them, by giving an answer to the messages that had been sent them by the Committee of this place. In this speech they anticipated part of what we had in charge to deliver to them. Being, as we conceived, apprehensive that we should request them to take up arms in our cause, they explicitly declared that, as it was a family quarrel, they would not interfere, but remain neuter, and hoped we would not desire more of them. We have not got above half through what we are directed to say to them; and although I hardly know how to leave them, yet such is the nature of the intelligence contained in the papers which I do myself the honour to enclose your Excellency, that I consider myself under the necessity of leaving the Indian business to my colleagues, and repairing immediately to join the Army.

That Governour Carleton and his agents are exerting themselves to procure the savages to act against us, I have reason to believe, from the various accounts which I have received; but I do not believe he will have any success with the Canada Tribes, though I make no doubt but he is joined by some of the more remote Indians, who I believe will assist him, and who have already served him as scouts from St. John’s. I should therefore not hesitate one moment to employ any Indians that might be willing to join us.

I thank your Excellency for the honour you have done me, in communicating me your plan for an expedition into Canada. The enclosed information of Fire’s, which corroborates not only the information of Major Brown, and that contained in the two affidavits, but every other we have had, leaves not a trace of doubt on my mind as to the propriety of going into Canada; and to do it has been my determination, unless prevented by my superiours, for some time; and I have accordingly, since my arrival here, requested General Montgomery to get every thing in the best readiness he could, for that I would move immediately, weak and ill appointed as we were; and I learn with pleasure that he has, since the receipt of Griffin’s information, ordered the cannon to be embarked, and he will probably be off from Ticonderoga so soon that I shall only be able to join him at Crown Point. Such being my intention, and such the ideas that I have formed of the necessity of penetrating into Canada without delay, your Excellency will easily conceive that I felt happy to learn your intentions, and only wished that the thought had struck you sooner. The force I shall carry is far short of what I would wish. I believe it will not exceed seventeen hundred men; and this will be a body insufficient to attempt Quebeck with, after leaving the necessary detachments at St. John’s, Chambly, and Montreal, should we succeed and carry those places, which must be respectable, to keep an open and free communication with Crown Point, &c.

Having given your Excellency the time, first and latest intelligence I have had, together with my opinion of the sentiments of the Canadians, I proceed to inform you of the enemy’s strength, as far as I have been able to learn it. Three hundred and fifty or four hundred at St. John’s, one hundred and fifty or two hundred at Chambly, about fifty at Montreal, and one Company at Quebeck; these are regular troops; besides between three and five hundred