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ships-of-war and transports under his command, on the 7th and 8th of AUGUST, A. D. 1775, viz:

1,100 sheep, at 6s. sterling per head,	Ł330	0	0
30 head of cattle at scale prices,	102	15	0

	Ł432	15	0

Reduced to lawful money is,	Ł587	13	4

AUGUST 19, 1775.—Expense of removing said BROWN’S stock from FISHER’S ISLAND, by advice of NEW-LONDON County Committee of Correspondence and Safety, viz:

Boating of 28 cows, at 3s . per head,	Ł4	4	0
Do. 8 two year-old cattle, at 2s . 6d.	1	0	0
Do. 30 yearling cattle, at 2s.	3	0	0
Do. 562 sheep, at 2d.	4	13	8

	Ł12	17	8

Account of expense and damage said BROWN sustained by keeping his stock on the main, and in not improving the Island, viz:

Keeping 28 cows from the 1st of November, 1775, (when they ceased to pay their keeping,) to the 31st of January, 1776, at 1s . 6d . per week, being 13 weeks each, is,	Ł27	6	0
To keeping 62 sheep from 19th of August, 1775, to January 31, 1776, being 23½ weeks each, at 1d. per week, the rest being sold at fetching off,	6	0	5
To keeping 28 yearling cattle 23½ weeks each, at 7d. per week,	18	15	8
To damage sustained by not improving the 28 cows on the Island, loss of feed, and what they suffered by being carried off, at 20s .,	28	0	0
To damage by loss of feed, and in not being permitted to keep 500 sheep on the Island, being the usual quantity for increase, &c., 1s . per head,	25	0	0

	Ł105	13	1

NEW-LONDON COUNTY,	}	ss.
STONINGTON,January 31, 1776.

Personally appeared Mr. John Brown, of Fisher’s Island, of lawful age, and (being duly sworn,) testifieth and saith: That he lived with his father, Mr. Benjamin Brown, the year past; and that, in the morning of the 7th of August last, Captain Wallace, of the Ship Rose, and some other ships-of-war and transports under his command, came to anchor at the west end of said Island; soon after which, Captain Wallace, with a number of armed men, came on shore, and applied to his father for a number of fat cattle and sheep; that Captain Wallace said, if he would let them have them at such price as this deponent and one Colonel Willard should agree for, all was well; but if that did not suit the deponent and his father, he, Wallace, said he would have them notwithstanding; and commanded them immediately to have said stock brought up and yarded; upon which this deponent, with others, (knowing themselves and the stock of said Island to be in the power of said Wallace,) went after the cattle and sheep, and brought them up and yarded them; that this deponent and Colonel Willard valued the eleven hundred sheep and thirty cattle at four hundred and thirty-two pounds fifteen shillings sterling; that the sheep were put on board the transports the 7th of August, and the cattle the day following; and that he expected Captain Wallace would pay his father for said stock, and that this deponent went on board the Spy transport with the account, to receive the money thereon; that when on board, the Captain of the Spy (H. Evans ) gave him an order on his Excellency General Gage for the amount of said cattle and sheep; and that he received no other consideration whatever, and that no part of said order hath ever been paid. And this deponent further testifieth, that the within account of expense for removing the sheep, cows, &c., to the main, and the keeping them, is a true and just account, and that he thinks the damage his father sustained by the removing the stock from said Island (not being permitted to return them again) is as great as it is here estimated at, and that his father’s damage is daily increasing, both by the expense of keeping the stock and in his not being permitted to feed and improve the Island as usual.

JOHN BROWN.

Sworn before me,

NATHANIEL MINOR, Justice of Peace.

Appraisal of damage done at STONINGTON, LONG-POINT, in CONNECTICUT, by Captain WALLACE, of the Ship ROSE, and Tenders under his command, on the 30th of AUGUST, A. D. 1775, is as follows, viz:

Mr. Joseph Denison, 2d, house, shop, and goods,	Ł3	4	0
Mr. James Rhodes, house,	3	17	0
Mr. John Denison, 4th, house and goods,	6	10	0
Mr. Isaac Sheffield, house and goods,	2	14	0
Mr. John Rathbun, house, shop, and goods,	1	10	0
Mr. John Brown, Jun., house, store, and goods,	3	12	0
Mr. Oliver Hillard, house and barn,	0	10	0
Mr. Gilbert Fanning, house,	1	4	0
Mr. John Denison, 5th, house and goods,	0	10	0
Mr. John Minor, house and goods,	0	12	0
The School-house,	0	6	0
Mr. Nathaniel Crandal, house and store,	1	4	0
Mr. Samuel Bebe, house,	0	3	0
Mr. Thomas Hiccox, house,	0	12	0
Major Oliver Smith, house, ware-house, shop, and goods,	3	14	0
Captain Thomas Robinson, house and store,	0	10	0
Mr. James Trip, goods,	2	8	0

	Ł33	0	0

NEW-LONDON COUNTY,	}	ss.
STONINGTON, February 5, 1776.

Personally appeared Mr. Samuel Satterlee, house-carpenter and joiner, and made solemn oath, That, having carefully inspected the damage done the buildings and goods, at Long-Point, by Captain James Wallace, of the Ship Rose, and tenders under his command, on the 30th of August last, and having considered the same, find it agreeable to the above account.

Sworn before me,

NATHANIEL MINOR, Justice of Peace.

Invoice of Cargo and Expenses shipped on board the Sloop BLACK JOKE, JOHN MACKIBBIN Master, for JAMAICA, on account and risk of NATHANIEL SHAW, Jun., owner of said Vessel and Cargo, and consigned to said master.

Seven thousand two hundred pipe-staves, at 80s.	Ł28	16	0
Three thousand hoops, at 60s.	9	0	0
One hundred and thirteen packs shaken cask, at 4s.	22	12	0
Four thousand five hundred and twenty bunches onions, at 21¹/₂d.	47	1	8
Three barrels pork, at 60s .; seven barrels beef, at 45s.	24	15	0
Four tierces bread, at 40s .; fifty-five water casks, at 9s.	32	15	0
Fourteen shoats, weight 757 lbs., at 2d.	6	6	2
Five hundred bushels oats and rye,	45	0	0
Eight tons hay, at 60s.	24	0	0
Thirty-six horses, amounting to	432	0	0
Expense of loading, erecting awning, one month's pay in advance, &c., amounting to	97	0	4

	769	6	2
Commission on ditto, at 5 per cent.	38	9	3
The value of the Sloop,	450	0	0

Lawful money,	Ł1,257	15	5

Errors excepted:

NATHANIEL SHAW, JUN.

NEW-LONDON COUNTY,	}	ss.
NEW-LONDON, Janruary 1776.

Personally appeared Mr. Nathaniel Shaw, of New-London, merchant, and made solemn oath that the above sloop,

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