may be necessary for these purposes. I am, sir, your most obedient servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

To Brig. Gen. James Wadsworth, com. Militia.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO GENERAL SCHUYLER.

New-York, June 27, 1776.

DEAR SIR: Congress having disapproved the proceedings of the Commissioners at Albany, on the 13th instant, transmitted them in my letter of the 21st, so far as they relate to raising two companies of Mohegan and Stockbridge Indians; in compliance with their resolve, (a copy of which is enclosed,) I am to request you to put the most early and speedy stop to the same. The honourable President observes in his letter, that the resolve for employing Indians is conceived in such terms as to give, at first view, a latitude of construction as to the place in which they are to be raised, and the Commissioners must have understood it so, which led to the mistake. I am, dear sir, &c,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

To General Schuyler.

LIEUTENANT DAVISON TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Armed Sloop Schuyler, June 27, 1776.

Since our last, we have, in company with Captain Rogers, of the armed sloop Montgomery, retaken four prizes, which were taken by the Greyhound man-of-war, bound for Sandy-Hook —two brigs, belonging to Nantucket, with oil, one with near five hundred barrels on board, and the other one hundred and fifty; also, a schooner and a sloop, the schooner belonging to Cape-Ann, loaded with molasses and some sugar; the sloop outward bound, belonging to Rhode-Island, loaded with flour and lumber.

We have intelligence by one of the prisoners, that a fleet of one hundred and thirty sail sailed from Halifax the 9th instant for Sandy-Hook, and that General Howe is on board the Greyhound, which we supposed passed us three days ago, we having observed a ship to the westward of us about that time standing for Sandy-Hook. Captain Rogers has applied to the Committee for a guard, which they have supplied us with, and shall send the prisoners as soon as possible.

JOSEPH DAVISON, Lieutenant.

To His Excellency General Washington.

COLONEL JAMES CLINTON TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Fort Constitution, June 27, 1776.

MAY IT PLEASE TOUR EXCELLENCY: Since I wrote to you I received the within letter, but I think it necessary to have your orders before I comply with the within request. I hear the Committees have taken Colonel Cadwallader Colden, on suspicion of being an enemy to the liberties of America; but what they will do with him I cannot tell. Lawer Cranney, who left Poughkeepsie sometime ago and has been advertised there, is likewise taken by the Committees and sent back by a guard to Poughkeepsie.

I am, dear General, your most obedient, humble servant,

JAMES CLINTON, Colonel.

To His Excellency General Washington, New-York.

DEAR SIR: As complaints have been made before these Committees of sundry persons in the Precinct of Newburgh as being very dangerous to the cause in which we are engaged, we, the said Committees, in conjunction, do request and pray that you will be pleased to grant us Lieutenant Israel Smith, with twenty-five good men, for the space of one week, in order that we may get some of these rascals apprehended and secured. If you shall think well of this matter, and it be consistent with your duty, we beg our request may be complied with without delay. If you are scarce of arms we will furnish them; ammunition we are destitute of at present, therefore beg they will bring a supply with them. We propose to send Major Samuel Logan in company with Lieutenant Smith; also, a good pilot, who understands the woods well. We need not say much to you, sir, on this occasion, as you know our situation; and being in much haste, you will please to pardon any inaccuracies that may appear.

We have the honour to be, with all due esteem, your most obedient, humble servants.

By order of the Committees:

ABEL BELKNAP, Chairman.

To Colonel James Clinton, commanding officer at Fort Constitution.

CADWALLADER COLDEN, JR., TO ULSTER COUNTY COMMITTEE.

Hanover Precinct, June 27, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: On Monday night last, between the hours of eleven and twelve, a number of armed men surrounded my house, then raising me out of bed, told me they were sent by order of the Joint Committee of Newburgh and New-Windsor to search my house, which I readily submitted to, and used the company in every respect with the greatest good humour and civility. The next morning they told me the Committee desired me to appear before them the day following. I told them I should wait on them, but they replied they were ordered to keep me in custody until that time. I then desired I might be kept under guard at my own house; that I would maintain and pay the guard. This was also refused, and I was threatened to be rode upon a rail if I would not go otherwise; so I was compelled to go with a guard out of the party to Mr. Jackson, of New-Windsor, when I was confined for twenty-four hours; and, though Colonel Ellison offered to become bail for my appearance, I was not permitted to go to his house to lodge. The next day being Saturday, I was carried before the Committee, where, waiting till near sunset, I was called in by the Committee, and asked if I would choose to be tried by the County Convention or before that Board. I desired to know the charge against me, and was answered, nothing but a grand suspicion of my being inimical to the American cause. I said I had made no secret of my principles and opinions on these matters, while I thought they might in the least contribute to ward off the calamities I foresaw must attend the publick measures then adopted, and which is now too unhappily come to pass; that when I found I could do no good that way, I had entirely avoided interfering in any shape in publick affairs; and further said, if there was any charge against me of any kind, I thought, by the rule of the Congress, it was to be made to the Committee of the Precinct in which I resided, so chose to have the affair referred to them; and was answered that that would be appealing to a Board of no greater authority than their own; besides that, they had reason to think the Committee of Hanover too remiss in their duty, and under some undue influence. I then said I was willing to have a hearing or trial before the County Committee, and so was discharged upon my parole to appear before your Board on notice by letter from the Chairman, and which I now desire may be as soon as possible; for since I came home I have been informed that some of the party who came to my house in the night, the next day went through the neighbourhood and reported that they had found a man in my house charged with messages and papers from oh board the man-of-war; that he had made his escape, and that they were in pursuit of him; and that one of their own body actually personated such a one, who appeared to be flying before the party.

As I am daily threatened with destruction both to my person and property, and this seems to be calculated to raise the resentment of some mad mob against me, I think it highly necessary for my safety to have this matter cleared up to the publick; and as at present there is no other way but by a hearing before you, I do hereby request you will cause this matter, and any complaint against me, to come before you as soon as may be; and you will oblige, gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,

CADWALLADER GOLDEN, Jun.

To the General Committee for the County of Ulster.

In County Committee, New-Paltz, June 28, 1776.

Ordered, That Cadwallader Colden, Esq., be notified to appear at the house of Ann Dubois, on Thursday next, the 4th July, by ten o’clock, in the forenoon, there to answer the charges that then may appear against him touching his being an enemy to the American cause.