speedily recover your health is the ardent wish of your sincere and affectionate humble servant,

RICHARD MONTGOMERY.

To General schuyler.

P. S. Major Brown has brought the colours of the Seventh Regiment, which I have the honour to transmit to you. Before Captain Lamb’s Company of Artillery arrived, I was obliged to appoint officers and men to that service. They are still necessary. 1 promised to use my influence for an addition to their pay. I hope the Congress will indulge me in this particular.

Articles proposed for His Majesty’s Garrison at Chambly.

ART. 1st. The garrison, officers, and men, not to be made prisoners, but to march unmolested, with their arms, accoutrements, twenty-four rounds of ammunition each, drums beating, colours flying, and provision and carts sufficient to pass by the shortest road to Montreal, or any other place in the Province of Quebeck, at the option of the Hon. Major Stopford, the commanding officer.

ART. 2d. The officers and men to be allowed their baggage.

ART. 3d. The men not to be decoyed from their Regiment.

ART. 4th. The women and children to be permitted to go with the Regiment, and their effects, unmolested.

ART. 5th. The ammunition and stores of all kinds remaining in the garrison to be given up.

ART. 6th. Hostages to be given on both sides for the faithful performance of the above articles, and then to be exchanged.

J. STOPFORD, Major of the Royal Fusileers, commanding at Fort Chambly.

The answer to the Articles, proposed by the Honourable Major Stopford, agreeable to the instructions of Brigadier-General Montgomery, commanding the Continental Forces for the time being, is this:

ART. 1st. The garrison, officers, and men, to surrender themselves prisoners of war.

ART. 2d. In case the garrison surrender prisoners of war, to be allowed all their baggage, agreeable to their desire.

As to ART. 3d, it never was the intention of any officer intrusted with the command of a party now besieging your fort, to take the advantage of decoying the garrison, after a solemn engagement entered into by both parties, and consequently your fears on that head must be groundless.

ART. 4th, The women and children shall be permitted to go with the rest of the garrison, and take their effects, provided the garrison surrender themselves prisoners as aforesaid.

ART. 5th. The ammunition and stores, &c., of all kinds, to be delivered up, upon the faith and honour of the commanding officer of the garrison.

JNO. BROWN, Major, & c., Commander of the Continental Forces before Chambly.

In reply to Major Brown’s answer to the Honourable Major Stopford’s proposals in regard to the surrender of Fort Chambly:

Major Stopford having considered Major Brown’s Articles, agrees to the same, although he could wish the first Article might have been as he proposed.

Major Stopford, relying in every article to Major Brown’s honour, will give him up the Fort any hour tomorrow morning.

J. STOPFORD, Major of the Royal Fusileers, commanding the Garrison of Chambly.

Fort Chambly, October 18, 1775.

A List of Officers taken at CHAMBLY.

Major Stopford, Captain Price, (sick at Chambly,) Captain Godwin, Lieutenant Hamar, Lieutenant Harrison, Lieutenant Shettleworth, Captain Alye, of the schooner, Commissary McCullough, a Surgeon.

An Account of Stores taken at CHAMBLY.

Eighty barrels of flour. Eleven barrels of rice. Seven barrels of peas. Six firkins of butter. One hundred and thirty-four barrels of pork. Seven barrels of pork, damaged. One hundred and twenty-four barrels of gunpowder. Three hundred swivel shot. One box of musket shot. Six thousand five hundred and sixty-four musket cartridges. One hundred and fifty stand of French arms. Three royal mortars. Sixty-one shells. Five hundred hand grenades. Rigging for three vessels at least.

Royal Fusileers, 83. Accoutrements, 83.

GENERAL MONTGOMERY TO MAJOR STOPFORD.

Camp before St. John’s, October 20, 1775.

SIR: I have information from different quarters, that Governour Carleton treats his unfortunate prisoners with the most cruel severity, loading them with irons, and that Colonel Allen himself meets with the same indignity. I should have thought his humanity, as well as his prudence, would have dictated other measures.

Should the Governour avow and persevere in this severity to the Canadians and other Colonists who have fallen into his hands, I must appeal to your own candour whether my duty to the troops committed to my charge, does not demand retaliation. Permit me to assure you, Sir, I shall feel the most painful reluctance on this melancholy occasion. Let me therefore request that you will despatch a letter to the Governour, acquainting him with your situation, and representing the fatal consequences which must attend the carrying on so barbarous a war. Your drummer shall have a passport, and I shall expect his return on the sixth day, at furthest.

Humanity would make me anxious for the success of this negotiation, were it a contention with foreigners; but when I consider that my countrymen are concerned, whose mistaken principles of Government or erroneous opinions of duty may have led into this fatal controversy, I feel the most ardent solicitude for its accomplishment.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

RICHARD MONTGOMERY,
Brigadier-General of the Continental Troops, and commanding the Auxiliary Troops in Canada.

To Major Stopford.

STEPHEN MOYLAN AND JOHN GLOVER TO COL. JOSEPH REED.

Beverly, October 21, 1775.

DEAR SIR: The schooners, commanded by Captains Broughton and Selman, sailed this morning. As they had none but their old colours, we appointed them a signal, that they may know each other by, and be known to their friends—the ensign up to the main toppinglift.

You will please to order the crew of the schooner to be manned out of General Sullivan’s Brigade to hold themselves in readiness for embarking next Thursday. The sooner this is done the better, as they may prepare what necessaries they may have occasion for, and not delay in looking out for them here; and, as the Marblehead gentry will go home, it will be best to send them off tomorrow, and we shall stand a better chance of being able to collect them on Thursday. Indeed, the Captains of both schooners should be here to superintend the work.

Mr. Moylan has ordered two hundred barrels of the flour that was at Ipswich to this place, for the use of the Navy; it saves some miles of land carriage, that at Salem being nearer camp.

Colonel Glover has received the present which Captain Langdon made to the officers on board the schooner; he thinks it very genteel.

Please to send the following articles immediately: forty spears, three hundred sorted swivel-shot and some matchrope, two signal flags, fifty pounds chocolate, fifty pounds coffee, one hundred and twelve pounds sugar, and a small firkin of butter.

We are, with great regard, Sir, your most humble servants,

STEPHEN MOYLAN,
JOHN GLOVER.

JONA. HALE TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Haverhill, October 21, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: I had the pleasure to receive from Col. Morey, not long since, a commission appointing me a Second Major of the Twelfth Regiment of Militia, by order