number and value have been brought in, and will take care to have a return made to you.

I am, &c.,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

To Governour Trumbull.

WATSON.ROBERT H.HARRISON TO WILLIAM

Cambridge, January 25, 1776.

SIR: Your letter to his Excellency of the 23d instant, is come to hand, by Lieutenant Wigglesworth. His conduct respecting Mr. Dote, in giving up the First Lieutenancy to him, will be taken due notice of on a future occasion. He carries the commissions and cartridge-paper.

The General doubts not your endeavouring to get out as soon as possible. Yours, &c.

To William Watson, Esq., Plymouth.

JOSEPH ROBSON TO COUNCIL OF SAFETY OF MARYLAND,

Cambridge, January 26, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: I observe, by a resolve of the late Convention, that the Minute-Company of Dorchester County, which I have the honour to command, is ordered to inarch down into Virginia; and, as the gentleman who was my First Lieutenant has thought proper to resign his commission, 1 have herewith enclosed it to you. Lest you should be unacquainted with a person suitable to fill that station, have, in some measure, thought it my duty to inform; with your approbation, could wish it supplied by the appointment of him who now acts as my Second Lieutenant, Mr. Moses Le Compte, Jun.; and, if your Honours have not in view a person more worthy to act as Second Lieutenant, take the liberty of naming Mr. Matthias Traverse, if you approve of him.

I am, gentlemen, with due respect, your obedient, humble servant,

JOSEPH ROBSON.

To the Honourable the Council of Safety.

P. S. As I cannot possibly march until the officers are complete, I hope the messenger will be despatched as quick as possible.

JOHN HANCOCK TO GENERAL LEE.

Philadelphia, January 26, 1776.

SIR: This morning I was favoured with your letter, by express, which 1 laid before Congress, in consequence of which they have appointed a Committee of three of their Members, viz: Colonel Harrison, Mr. Lynch, and Mr. Allen, immediately to repair to New-York, and confer with you and the Committee of Safety of that Colony on the subject of your letter, which supersedes the necessity of my being particular, as I must refer you to those, gentlemen.

I have only to add my best wishes for your health, and that success may attend your important exertions.

I have the honour to be, with esteem, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

JOHN HANCOCK, President.

To the Honourable Major-General Lee.

JOHN GRAHAM TO NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Guard-Room, Upper Barracks, January 26, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Please to pardon my intrusion of the following lines, as I am one of the unfortunate among mankind, and my health so much impaired that this close confinement, I find, daily drives a nail in my coffin. I hope you will take the above into your wise consideration, and set me at liberty; or, should these unhappy times determine it otherwise, if it should seem meet, grant me the parole. 1 am, gentlemen, with the greatest respect, your most obedient, humble servant,

JOHN GRAHAM

P. S. I wrote a letter, dated 23d instant, to Colonel McDougall, setting forth the reason of my going in that sloop that was cast away on Squan-Beach, New-Jersey, the 23d December, 1775, which was matter of fact, which I hope has appeared before the honourable Committee.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN THE EXFEDITION ON LONG-ISLAND,DATEBAR JERICHO, JANUARY 26, 1776.

We set out from Woodbridge on Wednesday, the 17th instant, with about six hundred Militia, and were joined, at New-York, with a detachment from Lord Stirling's battalion, consisting of near three hundred, and on Friday morning we crossed, with all our troops, at Horne's-Hook, near Hellgate, and met with no opposition; proceeded on our way to Jamaica, took in custody some of the principal persons proscribed, sent out parties and brought in many of those who voted against sending Delegates, disarmed them, and required them to sign an obligation we had drawn up, in which we enjoin them not to oppose either the Continental or Provincial Congresses, but to be subject to them, and not aid or assist the Ministerial, troops in the present contest.

From Jamaica we went to Hempstead town, where we expected the warmest opposition, but were disappointed, for the inhabitants came in and brought in their arms voluntarily, for two days, as fast as we could conveniently receive them. We have got about three hundred stand of arms, and a considerable quantity of powder and lead. We are now on our way to Oyster-Bay, and shall scour the country as we go, and shall exert ourselves to discharge the trust enjoined on us.

Colonel Heard sent the detachment home last Tuesday, as he thought the Militia sufficient. He is indefatigable in discharging his duty, treats the inhabitants with civility and the utmost humanity, and even the delinquents express themselves well pleased that a detachment of Jerseymen (and not of New-England) were sent to disarm them. Many of those who were proscribed as principals have either fled or secreted themselves; several we have in custody. Some others, I believe, are yet to be had; but, by some means or other, they have had a list of the persons pointed out as principals before our arrival. We are making inquiry how they got their intelligence, but are not yet informed. Those that have come in and surrendered their arms, are much irritated with those who have led them to make opposition, and have deserted them in (he day of difficulty. I conceive they will be as safe, if not safer, in our custody than at present among their neighbours, of which some of them seem very apprehensive, and complain that they have met with insults already.

DECLARATION SIGNED BY SUNPRY INHABITANTS OF QUEEN'S> COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

January 19, 1776.

Whereas, we, the subscribers, inhabitants of Queen's County, on Long-Island, in the Province of New-York, have given great uneasiness' to the good people of the neighbouring Provinces and the Continent in general, by our not choosing a Committee agreeable to the orders of the Continental Congress, by our not paying that attention to the directions of our Provincial Congress, which we ought to have done, and by our opposing the General Instructions of the Continental Congress in almost all our conduct and actions. Therefore, (in order to relieve the minds of the virtuous inhabitants of America, and those of this County in particular, engaged in the common cause,) we, the subscribers, do most solemnly and sincerely promise, that we will, hereafter, in all cases, implicitly obey all orders and instructions enjoined on us by our Provincial and Continental Congresses, that we will act in conjunction with the inhabitants of this and the neighbouring Provinces, in the defence of American liberty, that we never will take up arms against the Americans, and that we will not, directly or indirectly, countenance, aid, assist, or by any means join with, any of His Majesty's troops in the present contest between Great Britain sad America, Given under our hands, this 19th day of January, 1776.