CAPTAIN ROGERS TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Sloop Montgomery, Little Egg-Harbour, May 22, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: We yesterday put in here to wood and fill up our water, which are now about, and shall sail again tomorrow, wind and weather permitting. On the 5th instant we brought to a schooner, Captain Casey, from Saltatudas, bound for Rhode-Island, who informed me that on the 1st of May, in latitude thirty-six degrees thirty minutes, longitude seventy-one degrees, he saw eight sail of ships standing to the northward, but what they were he could not tell. The 6th of May we were cruising off Montauk; we saw a sail in the offing, and gave chase; she stood from us; the day being thick and hazy, we came in about a league of her, when we discovered that, although she seemed to be running from us with topgallant-sails set, her courses were hauled up, and staysails all down; the weather clearing a little off, we saw she was a ship-of-war; we then gave over chase and hove to, as we were between her and the land. But no sooner than she saw that we gave over chase, she gave chase to us, and followed us round Montauk; we hauled close aboard of a reef that lies within Montauk; she then gave over chase, and stood out again. From a Block-Island fishing-boat that I spoke, I was informed that there was a ship of twenty-eight guns, and a brig of fourteen guns, cruising off there; that they had been on shore on the Island and filled water, about the 20th or 21st of April. We have not been into any of the inlets on the back of Long-Island; but we sounded one with the boat, and found thirteen feet water over the bar at about half ebb. The 18th we were off Sandy-Hook; saw but two ships in the bay; they did not send anything out after us, which we expected they would. I expected to find the schooner Putnam on this coast, but have not seen or heard anything of her; we have not seen a sail of any kind since we left cruising off Montauk but the ships we saw in at Sandy-Hook. When we go out again, expect to cruise towards Cape-May. Our ship’s company are all well and hearty. I remain, &c.,

WILLIAM ROGERS,
Captain of the armed sloop Montgomery.

To the Provincial Congress of the City of New-York.

LEVI PAWLING TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Marbletown, May 19, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: I received a return, a few days ago, from the Chairman of the Committee for the town of Rochester, setting forth that Zachariah Rosekrans, late Ensign in Captain Joakim Schoonmaker’s Company, had resigned, and that the Committee had ordered an election for choosing another Ensign for said company, which was done, and that Moses Depue, Jun., was duly elected by the company for the office aforesaid; I therefore desire that the said Moses Depue, Jun., may be commissioned to be an Ensign in the said Captain Joakim Schoonmaker’s Company; and your compliance, gentlemen, will oblige your very humble servant,

LEVI PAWLING.

CAPTAIN ROSEKRANS AND OTHERS TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Fort Montgomery, May 22, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: The bearer hereof, Captain Uriah Drake, having signified to us, the subscribers, that in case it might be the resolution of the Continental or Provincial Congress to raise any more forces in this Province for the standing Army this season, he was desirous of obtaining a warrant for the purpose of raising a company; we, therefore, hereby certify that we have been acquainted with him near two months at this post, and have taken notice of his conduct with respect to the discipline and manners of the little company of Minute-men he has commanded here, and think him a worthy, good officer, very deserving of a warrant for raising a company, if necessary. We are, &c.,

THOMAS PALMER.
JAMES ROSEKRANS, Captain.
ELI PARSONS, Lieutenant.
ABRAHAM SWARTWOUT, Captain.
JOHN BELKNAP, Captain.
HENRY PAWLING, Lieutenant.
DAVID HUNTER, Ensign.
JOSEPH BALDING, Ensign.

To the Honourable Provincial Congress.

P. S. We are also of opinion that William Ervin, for First Lieutenant, Joshua Myrick, Second Lieutenant, and James Ervin, Ensign, are very suitable and worthy men to fill up the offices aforesaid, in case Captain Drake should obtain a warrant.

THOMAS PALMER.
JAMES ROSEKRANS, Captain.
ABRAHAM SWARTWOUT, Captain.
JOHN BELKNAP, Captain.
ELI PARSONS, Lieutenant.
HENRY PAWLING, Lieutenant.
DAVID HUNTER, Ensign.
JOSEPH BALDING, Ensign.
SIMEON TRYON, Lieutenant.
ZACHARIAS HASBROUCK, Lieut.
THOMAS LEE, Lieutenant.
DANIEL LAWRENCE, Lieutenant.
NEHEMIAH CARPENTER, Q. M.

WILLIAM ELLSWORTH TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Kingston, May 22, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: As per enclosed, the Committee sends you two copies of the examinations of James and Lemuel Monger, concerning the counterfeiting and passing bills of credit of the Continental emission, Provincial Congress emission, and Connecticut emission. In the examination is a full confession of what they have made and done. The originals we have thought proper to keep until further order respecting the matter from the Continental Congress or the Provincial Congress. If the gentlemen think proper, please to report the same to the Continental Congress, that the Committee of Kingston may know what to do therein; and in the mean time should be glad to receive the advice of the Provincial Congress what to do.

Mr. Godfrey Haines, who was sent here, has made his escape from us last week. He happened to fall sick while in jail, and made application to us to come out of close confinement, and to have the liberty of the house until he got better; and before we imagined that he would attempt it, he made his escape.

By order of the Committee:

WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, Chairman.

To the President of the honourable Provincial Congress, or in the recess, to the Chairman of the Committee of Safety in the City of New-York.

Whereas Lemuel Monger, of Fredericksburgh Precinct, in Dutchess County, being apprehended by virtue of a precept of the Committee of Rumbout’s Precinct, directed to Lieutenant Henry Wyckhoff, bearing date the 11th day of May, 1776, and brought before the Committee of Safety and Observation of the town of Kingston on Monday, the 13th day of May, 1776, by their order, and received by this Committee of Kingston; they proceeded to examine said Monger touching and concerning the counterfeiting bills of credit of the Continental emission.

Lemuel Monger saith: That about the 1st day of April last, said Lemuel Monger received forty shillings lawful of the Connecticut bills of credit, of his brother, James Monger, in order to change it at Caleb Frost’s, for one six-shilling lawful of the Connecticut emission, and other bills of the Continental emission of small denomination, each one dollar; but does not know that there were any of a greater denomination; and understood, by broad hints his brother James Monger gave him, (the said Lemuel Monger,) that he knew he (the said James Monger) wanted the small bills of different emissions in order to counterfeit them. Soon after, the said James Monger came to the house of the examinant, and told the examinant he would go over the North River, in Ulster County, to one Jacob Degremore, to discharge one forty pound note which the said Lemuel Monger, the examinant, owed the said Degremore; and, also, one other note of fifteen pounds, which the examinant owed to one James King, for which James Monger was to have one half of the examinant’s farm, to pay off the above-mentioned note of forty pounds.

And the examinant further saith that he, the examinant, knew that the money his brother James Monger paid to Jacob Degremore was counterfeit money, except four pounds;