soners at Trenton, beg leave to send in General Schuyler's orders, and Captain Hulbert's proceedings in consequence of them.

The officers were placed by Captain Hulbert at a tavern; that he afterwards went to Philadelphia, and reported to Congress what he had done; on his return to Trenton, he told the women of the house, and likewise some gentlemen of the Committee of Safety, that we were to live at the Continent's expense, agreeable to the orders he received from General Schuyler, till she, or they, heard from Congress to the contrary, and that they were so busy at that lime that nothing could be settled, but would be soon.

The officers imagine, that the bill already delivered in by Mrs. Stelle, and their lodgings, that the gentlemen of the Congress do not mean the officers should pay, as they were placed there by Captain Hulbert, by General Schuyler's instruction, and confirmed by him, on his return from Philadelphia, to several gentlemen of the Committee of Safety.

Return of Clothing, Necessaries, &c., that was lost, belonging to the Prisoners of His Majesty's Seventh Regiment of Royal Fusileers, at Trenton.

N. B. The above necessaries were valued by the Sergeants. There is, likewise, a whole year's clothing lost.

J. STOPFORD, Major.

ROBERT OGDEN TO NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

January 23, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Yours of yesterday, directed to the Earl of Stirling, came express five o'clock; and as my Lord was set off in the morning, with a party of men, as supposed, in order to lake the vessel, and went by the way of Perth-Amboy, the Committee immediately met, and concluded to send three boats, with a hundred men, well armed, to assist in taking said vessel. This resolution, with the letter from your Committee, we sent express at seven o'clock, to my Lord, and the one hundred men, well equipped, set off in the boats about twelve o'clock, and hope, on their return, will be able to give a good account of the vessel.

We are, gentlemen, your very humble servants.

By order of the Committee:

ROBERT OGDEN, Chairman.

To Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Safely.

JOHN IMLAY TO NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

New-Brunswick, New Jersey, January 23, 1776.

SIR: Your favour of the 21st, I received last night, and for answer, I am sorry to inform you, I cannot, with any propriety, leave home at this time; my wife being very unwell, and has been so for several days. Neither do I see any prospect of my attending the Committee of Safety as soon as I could wish. I have, for several years past, been afflicted with a scorbutick complaint on my hands and legs, which is very troublesome to me in cold weather, and has been so bad for these two weeks past, that I have been unable to put on my clothes without help. Neither can I travel in cold weather without, in some degree, endangering my life. I am really sorry I cannot attend for the discharge of my duty. As soon as the health of my family and self will permit my leaving home, I shall give my attendance in Committee.

I am, with great respect, sir, your humble servant,

JOHN IMLAY.

JOHN GRAHAM TO COLONEL MCDOUGALL.

Guard-Room, January 23, 1776.

SIR: I flatter myself you will pardon this intrusion, but hope my present unhappy situation will be a sufficient apology.

I was, unfortunately, cast away on the 23d of December last, on Squan-Beach, in the sloop Polly and Nancy, which vessel was laden by his Excellency Governour Tryon, for Boston, with sundry articles as a present to General Howe, and immediately was taken prisoner, by order of the Committee of Freehold, in Monmouth County. As I only went passenger, by permission of his Excellency, in order to get my son home to New-York, think it is cruel; my state of health, at present, is such, that if I have not my enlargement soon, I must inevitably perish.

I now presume to beg you will be kind enough to procure me at least a hearing; your compliance will be gratefully acknowledged by, sir, your very humble servant,

JOHN GRAHAM,

To Colonel McDougall.

JOHN BLACKLER TO NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Guard-House, January 23, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: My long confinement obliges me to beg you will let me know my doom. If I have done any thing deserving of punishment, let me suffer. I have now been deprived of liberty forty-three days. I was ingenuous in my confession, which is strictly true. Every gentleman must think it hard to be deprived of the benefit of enjoying a sufficient competency for the remainder of his days. This is truly my situation, was I but in England. As to my character here, I hope it is beyond the reach of malice to traduce. Necessity has obliged me to take the method I did, without a thought of depriving any individual of the city, of a farthing. I never received a remittance from home, but first I discharged my debts, which, I believe, my very enemies will say. My behaviour, since under confinement, can be attested for by the whole barracks.

As most of the gentlemen on the Committee, when I was first brought down, knew me at the lime I lived with Mr. John Amul, and his own recommendation found in my pocket-book, will, I hope, be a sufficient proof of my behaviour since my residence here.

I am, gentlemen, your very humble servant,

JOHN BLACKLER.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

Albany, January 23, 1776.

SIR: On the evening of the 21st I returned from Try on County. The following is a narrative of that little excursion:

As I had no troops here, to carry into execution the resolutions of Congress, I was under the necessity of communicating to the sub-Committee of this County, which I did, having previously administered an oath of secrecy. Whilst the Committee were devising the means to collect a body of men for this service, and much puzzled what reasons to give for doing it, the letter and affidavit from Tryon County (copies of which I had the honour to transmit you by my last express) came to hand, and the accounts contained in them were made the ostensible reasons for raising the Militia.

Although I thought two or three hundred men, with the Tryon County Whigs, sufficient to complete my business, yet I readily consented that seven hundred should be called upon, at once, to discourage the Tories in other parts of