eighty-nine barrels of provision, and three hundred and ninety-five men, with twenty days' provisions each. The horrid anxiety I suffered, from this dreadful situation of the Army, is now abated, and 1 hope for so sufficient a restoration as to enable me to join soon.

I do not think I shall have occasion for General Wooster’s Regiment, as I only wait for batteaus to send on five hundred New-Yorkers, that I now have here, and which I suppose will soon embark, as the wind is now favourable for craft to come from St. John’s, and which I expect with impatience.

The Troops from Connecticut have not been mustered. They made objections which, though not satisfactory to me, I was under a necessity of yielding to. I foresee a variety of difficulties in settling accounts, not only with them, but with every other corps. They are, however, surmountable; and I believe that I have formed a plan which will answer the purpose, and which I shall do myself the honour to lay before Congress on a future day.

Enclose your honour a copy of my last, which, as I did not send by express, may be detained; that of the 19th I hope is come to hand. It is a pity that there is no post between New-York and Albany. I believe it would be no publick expense.

I am, honoured Sir, most respectfully, your obedient and very humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq.

Ticonderoga, September 24, 1775.

The Deputies of the Six Nations, sent to Canada, re turned this day, and make the following report:

That by the unskilfulness of their pilot they got lost when they set out from Isle-aux-Noix, and fell in with St. John’s, from whence they retired undiscovered.

That on the second day they got within eight miles of Caughnawaga, and there met one hundred Indians, of different na tions, going to St. John’s.

That in a conference with them it was determined that they should return to Caughnawaga, to hear what the Deputies of the Six Nations had to say. That two of the party which they met went to some In dians that were with Colonel Johnson, who, upon the intelligence, quitted Johnson and went to Caughnawaga. When the Indians were arrived at Caughnawaga, they met an emissary of Colonel Johnson’s there, who, finding that the Indians would not fight against us, disguised himself and retired to Montreal. Colonel Johnson, on receiving the account, sent Colonel Claus, and Brandt, a Mohawk, to in vite them to come to him, and Claus gave a string to one of the Deputies. The Caughnawagas dissuaded the De puties from going, lest they be served like the Stock bridge Indians, and be made prisoners; upon which they returned the string, declaring they were not sent to John son, but to the Caughnawagas. This answer pleased the latter. That when they delivered my message to invite the Caughnawagas to come to me at Isle-aux-Noix or St. John’s, the Mohawk, Brandt, that attended Claus, ex claimed, It is over with Johnson; all the Indians will quit him." That the Caughnawagas were pleased with the message from the Six Nations, and with my invitation, and promised to comply with it. That the Deputies slept one night with them. That next day the Caughnawagas re tired to a distant house with them, where they remained one night, for fear of an accident, and then seven of their prin cipal men attended them to General Montgomery, at St. John’s, where they declared that the General might de pend upon it that they would not take a gun in hand against us, and pay not the least attention to Guy Johnson; that they would remain neuter.

QUEDOR, JAN JOST,

JACOBUS, CORNELIS.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO GENERAL SULLIVAN.

Committee of Safety, Exeter, September 28, 1775.

SIR: Yours of the 23d instant we this moment received, and, in answer thereto, must observe we are equally sorry with you that the New-Hampshire Troops complain, or have occasion for complaint. The cause we think obvious. When our Congress raised their Troops, they promised them one month’s pay, as soon as it could be emitted, and the remainder when they should be disbanded. The latter end of July last, a Sub-Committee from this waited on General Washington, to get information from him what was farther expected from the Colony, towards supplying and paying our Troops; who reported that the General told them he every day expected the appointment of a Com missary-General, and that as soon as that took place he should take charge of the whole Army as Continental, and provide for and (as they understood him) pay their whole wages except the first month’s, which this Colony had ad vanced. Upon which report, our Congress voted to emit such a sum of money as they judged sufficient to pay for supplying our Troops, and some other contingencies, until the Commissary-General took charge of them, and then adjourned to the last day of October next.

This Committee never had an idea that it would be ex pected from the Colony to pay the Troops any more wages, nor ever received the most distant hint of the kind from any person whomsoever, until General Washington lately made a requisition for the payment of one month’s wages to those soldiers of this Colony who were going to Quebeck with Col. Arnold, who, by the way, would have peaceably accepted one month’s pay, agreeable to the requisition, had it not been for your postscript to Ichabod Rollins, Esq., “that those who had not been paid up to the month of August ought to be paid immediately,” which they saw, and utterly refused to proceed without being paid accordingly; whereby we were obliged to pay them two months' wages, instead of the one General Washington had required.

Previous to this, we had sent two of this Committee to wait upon General Washington, and to inquire into some matters relating to the Army, who report that “when they arrived at the camp, they were told General Washington had given it out in general orders that the Troops should be paid by their respective Colonies up to August, and that our soldiers had been told they might daily expect this Colony to send the money for that purpose;” which sur prised them very much, as it does all of us, that the sol diers should be made to expect what the Colony was igno rant of, and could not possibly perform. They waited on General Washington, and conversed with him on the sub ject. He informed them that Connecticut and one other State (which they supposed was Rhode-Island ) had desired him not to pay their Troops; and that General Sullivan had told him New-Hampshire “could as well pay their Troops as not,” which was the occasion of his giving said orders, at a time the military chest was almost empty, and the money long expected from Philadelphia was not arrived. That the Massachusetts Troops had, besides the month’s pay advanced, received but one month’s wages, and that out of the Continental money.

As to the blankets, we always understood that there was only a few but were supplied long ago; and those few we supposed the officers (as there was a constant intercourse) had received from the Selectmen of their respective Towns, the way directed by our Congress.

Jchabod Rollins, Esq., one of our Committee of Sup plies, had orders, in July last, to provide a hundred coats for those persons who lost their clothes at Charlestoun battle. And, previous to the reception of yours, we had provided for the payment of their whole loss, which was as early as the circumstances of the Colony would admit of.

And now, Sir, upon this state of facts, which we aver to be just, we would ask where the “great defect” has been, and to whom the uneasiness of the Troops ought to be im puted; whether, as circumstances turned up, the Colony could have done more, unless they could have divined into the determinations and consequent expectations in and about the camp. Certainly, if it became requisite for the Colony to have paid up their Troops to the 4th of August, it was necessary they should have been notified thereof, in order that they might have made the provision needful, be fore the soldiers were encouraged to expect the immediate payment thereof.

However, we are zealous of doing every thing in our power necessary for the good of our Troops, the Army, and the important cause in which we are engaged. But until a vote of Congress for striking off more money, we shall be unable to advance any for the payment of wages; we having scarcely enough to pay for the coats promised them, the loss at Bunker’s Hill, &c, which on Monday last we ordered