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security of my half-pay. I say I am willing to take the risk of it to myself; but the damages will only put my interest on the same and a proper footing, without which, I am ruined; it is my whole dependance for a future subsistence, should I live through the present troubles; or, if I should not survive, to pay off some debts, and leave a small provision for my little family. Whatever the honourable Congress are pleased to allow, I beg you will order it to be paid to the bearer of this, Mr. Joseph Thorny, who has agreed to refund me, in hard specie, whatever he may receive from you in paper money, which is an advantage I would not willingly lose.

I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient, and most devoted, humble servant,

Moses Hazen.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq.

P. S. Lieutenant-Colonel Antill set out yesterday for Quebeck, and I shall leave this tomorrow, on a journey I, intend to lake through the country, in order to facilitate and complete the regiment which I have the honour to command. We have made a good beginning, and I hope, in a few days, to have it in my power to acquaint you of the desired success, as well in recruiting, as a friendly disposition of the Canadians. But you must send a Committee of Congress without delay. It is but a party of pleasure to come to Canada at this season of the year.

M. H.

An Inventory of Stock, &c., at ST. JOHN'S, belonging to MOSES HAZEN, Esq., and on his Farms near ST. JOHN'S, on the 18th day of SEPTEMBER, 1775, the day he was made a prisoner by Major BROWN, of the Continental Army, serving under General MONTGOMERY.

	Livres.
4 pair of oxen, at 200 livres each pair,	800
3 large New-England cows, 230 livres each,	690
6 ditto of half or mixed breed, 120 livres each,	720
8 large French cows, 60 livres each,	480
1 large New-England bull, 130 livres,	130
3 large calves, do, 60 livres each,	180
3 do. half-breed, 30 livres each,-	90
4 horses, 250 livres each,	1,000
4 do. 120 livres each,	480
1 New-England mare,	600
24 old sheep, of a large breed, 15 livres each,	360
18 lambs, 7 livres 10 sols each,	135
16 large swine, 50 livres each,	800
6 small swine, 25 livres each,	150
11 geese, two livres each,	22
5 dozen fowls, 30 sols per couple,	45
400 bushels potatoes, 2 livres per bushel,	800
400 bushels turnips, I livre 10 sols per bushel,	600
Garden roots and vegetables,	550
30 bushels Indian corn and beans, 3 livres per bush.,	90
10 bushels pease, 4 livres 10 sols per bushel,	45
6 bushels salt, 3 livres per bushel,	18
28 gallons New-England rum, 4 livres per gallon,	112
7 gallons West-India rum, 5 livres per gallon,	35
3 barrels superfine flour, 25 livres per barrel,	75
2 barrels pork, 72 livres per barrel,	144
Sugar, coffee, tea, soap, and candles,	300
Unseed oil and paint,	450
Iron and steel in bars,	250
2,150 bundles of hay, I livre per bundle,	2,150
33 panel doors, 24 livres each,	792
A parcel of hewn stones, to the amount of	300
1,400 boards and planks, 50 livres per hundred,	700
20 cords of fire-wood, 7 livres 10 sols per cord,	150
Carried forward,	14,243

SAMUEL ELMER,

MARINUS WILLETT, Capt. First York Reg't.

JAMES JEFFRY.

Montreal, February 17, 1776.

An Account of Losses and Damages sustained by MOSES HAZEN, Esq., at and about ST. JOHN'S, in the course of the year 1775, and in consequence of the Continental Troops coming into CANADA.

	Livres.
To the stock, &c., as per inventory on the other side,	14,243
To the total loss of a large field of grain, and sundry others of grass and hay, as per estimation, of Antoine Buke, Nicholas Manneer, and Francois Benoits, a chosen committee, and attested to before a Notary Publick, on the 12th December,1775,	3,330
To a large field of peas, estimated by Francois Brosseau, Joseph Brosseau, and John Baptiste Ganier, a committee appointed for that purpose, and attested to before a Notary Publick, on the 10th December, 1775,	1,300
To damages sustained and done to Mr. Hazen's dwelling-house, barn, saw-mills, potash-house, smith's forge, and other buildings, per estimation of Mr. James Bell, Antoine Larose, Pierre Smicold, and others, the 17th November, 1775,	7,079
To ditto, a farm at Colonel Bedel's camp, the post taken to cut off the communication from St. John's to Chambly and Montreal,	528
To household furniture plundered and pillaged by the Continental Army and Canadians in arms with General Montgomery,	7,200
To ditto, wearing apparel,	2,500
To farming utensils and tools,	1,500
To smiths' and potash do,	1,000
To carpenters' and joiners' do,	900
To coopers' and stave-makers' do,	2,400
To damages done to a large stone house and out-houses in the Fort at St. John's 38,400 livres, (the half only belonging to Mr. Hazen,)	19,200
To the loss of one year's work of four saw-mills,	6,000
To ditto, the use of his dwelling-house, potash, smith's forge, and other out-houses,	1,000
	68,180

SAMUEL ELMER,

MARINUS WILLETT, Capt. First York Reg't.

JAMES JEFFREY.

Montreal, February 17, 1776.

We, the subscribers, being appointed Commissioners by the Honourable David Wooster, Esq., commanding the Continental Army in Canada, to inquire into the losses which Moses Hazen, Esq., has sustained in and about St. John's, and to ascertain the same, met in the city of Montreal, on the 14th February, 1776, for that purpose, and then proceeded to swear and examine evidences relative to the losses sustained by the said Moses Hazen, Esq.

No. 1. To damage sustained by loss of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, geese, fowls, &.C., as per inventory, 14,243 livres.

No. 1. John Jump, being sworn, says, that he lived with Moses Hazen, Esq., from June 13, 1775, to 25th September following, the day said Hazen was taken prisoner, and he was overseer of said Hazen's farms at and near St. John's. He is well acquainted with his concerns there; and, producing to them the annexed inventory, he says every article is just and true. He likewise says there was a barrel of tar in the cellar, and some other trifles; and further saith, that hay is sold at St. John's at one livre per bundle.

No. 1. Nicholas Manner, being sworn, declares that, as to the stock' on Moses Hazen, Esq's, farm, and at his dwelling-house, opposite St. John's, agreeable to an inventory now delivered to the Commissioners, is just and true, as is, also, the account of potatoes, turnips, Indian corn, he, contained in the same inventory with the cattle.

No. 2. To loss of a large field of grain and several of grass, an estimation, 3,330 livres.

No. 2. Said Manner further saith, that he, with Francois Benois, and L. Bund, made an estimate of the damage done to Moses Hazen, Esq's, field of corn and grass, in and about Si. John's, and that it amounted to at least three thousand three hundred and thirty livres, which estimation and declaration were made the 12th December, 1775, before a Notary Publick.

No. 5. To damage done to a farm where Colonel Bedel's detachment was encamped, 528 livres.

No. 5. The deponent further saith, that there was damage done to another farm north of St. John's, belonging to said Hazen, where Colonel Bedel's detachment was encamped, to the amount of, by estimate, five hundred and twenty eight livres