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hundred and fifty—also a schooner and a sloop, the schooner belonging to Cape-Ann, laden with molasses and some sugar; the sloop outward bound, belonging to Rhode-Island, laden with flour and lumber. We have intelligence by one of the prisoners that a fleet of one hundred and thirty sail sailed from Halifaxthe 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.

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq., General and Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United Colonies:

To the Provost-Marshal of the said Army :

WhereasThomas Hickey, a soldier inlisted in the service of the said United Colonies, has been duly convicted by a General Court-Martial of mutiny and sedition, and also of holding a treacherous correspondence with the enemies of said Colonies, contrary to the Rules and Regulations established for the government of the said troops; and the said Thomas Hickey, being so convicted, has been sentenced to death, by being hanged by the neck till he shall be dead; which sentence, by the unanimous advice of the General Officers of the said Army, I have thought proper to confirm: These are, therefore, to will and require you to execute the said sentence upon the said Thomas Hickeythis day, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, upon the ground between the encampments of the Brigades of Brigadier-General Spencer and Lord Stirling; and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand this twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Head-Quarters, New-York, June 28, 1776.

New-York, June 28, 1776.

By virtue of, and in obedience to, the foregoing warrant, I have this day, at the time and place therein ordered and directed, caused Thomas Hickey, the prisoner within mentioned, to suffer death in the way and manner therein prescribed, and accordingly return this warrant fully executed.*

WILLIAM MORONY,

Provost-Marshal in the Army of the United Colonies.

General Return of the Army of the UNITED COLONIES, commanded by His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq.,
General and Commander-in-Chief; Head-Quarters atNEW-YORK, June 28, 1776.

REGIMENTS. OFFICERS PRESENT. RANK AND FILE. Wanting to complete. Since last Return.
Commissioned. Staff. Non-com missioned.
Colonels. Lieutenant-Colonels. Majors. Captains. First Lieutenants. Second Lieutenants. Ensigns. Chaplains. Adjutants. Quartermasters. Surgeons. Mates. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Present, fit for duty. Sick, present. Sick, absent. On Command. On Furlough. Total. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Rank and File. Inlisted. Dead. Discharged. Deserted.
Colonel Hand’s 1 1 - 6 7 3 6 1 1 1 1 - 18 6 487 18 11 14 23 553 - - 87 - - - -
Colonel Learned’s - 1 1 7 7 7 7 1 1 1 1 1 28 14 269 34 17 227 - 547 - - 93 2 - 2 2
Colonel Nixon’s 1 1 1 6 6 5 7 1 1 1 1 1 27 15 288 24 23 89 - 484 - 1 216 2 - 7 -
Colonel Prescott’s 1 1 1 5 8 6 7 1 1 1 1 1 28 16 310 34 16 57 - 417 1 - 223 - - 1 -
Colonel Varnum’s 1 1 1 6 7 5 5 1 1 1 1 - 27 16 289 40 11 61 - 401 - - 239 - 3 - 1
Colonel Parson’s 1 1 1 7 7 8 7 - 1 1 1 1 29 14 429 53 10 85 2 579 - - 61 1 1 1 1
Colonel Hitchcock’s 1 1 1 8 8 8 7 1 1 1 1 1 29 16 315 20 8 51 - 401 - - 239 - 3 - 1
Colonel Little’s 1 1 1 8 7 8 6 1 1 1 1 - 29 16 343 37 13 76 - 469 - - 171 2 - - -
Colonel Reed’s 1 1 1 7 3 8 7 - 1 1 - 1 31 16 339 38 16 136 1 530 - - 110 - - - -
Colonel Huntington’s 1 1 - 7 6 5 7 1 1 - 1 1 25 13 373 44 10 105 12 544 1 - 96 - 1 - 2
Colonel Webb’s 1 1 1 7 6 6 8 - 1 1 1 1 31 13 351 64 12 123 5 557 1 3 83 1 - 1 -
Colonel Arnold’s. - 1 1 8 7 6 8 1 1 - 1 1 251 15 386 31 8 104 3 532 - 1 108 - - - -
Colonel Ward’s 1 - - 5 7 5 7 1 1 1 - 1 26 13 201 65 3 139 - 508 1 3 132 5 - - 1
Colonel Wyllys’s 1 1 1 6 6 7 8 1 1 1 1 1 28 16 342 58 9 144 - 553 - - 87 2 - - -
Colonel Bailey’s 1 1 1 7 5 5 8 - 1 1 1 1 31 16 358 43 18 120 - 539 - - 101 - - 1 -
Colonel Baldwin’s 1 1 1 3 5 5 4 1 1 1 1 1 18 11 256 38 6 191 1 492 - 1 148 1 - - -
Colonel McDougall’s 1 1 1 6 7 5 7 - 1 1 1 1 32 18 302 36 10 117 4 469 4 - 171 12 - 1 6
Colonel Ritzema’s 1 1 - 8 6 6 7 - 1 1 1 1 31 15 363 36 - 62 5 466 - 1 174 2 - 9 10
Colonel Magaw’s 1 1 1 7 8 7 5 1 1 - - - 29 15 493 13 6 2 6 520 1 1 120 - - 1 19
Colonel Shea’s 1 1 1 8 7 7 8 - 1 1 1 - 32 12 461 14 10 22 10 517 - 4 123 - - - 62
Five companies of Colonel Wayne’s. - 1 1 4 5 5 5 1 - - - - 19 9 334 4 14 4 1 357 - - 43 - - 3 3
 
Total 18 20 17 136 140 122 141 14 20 17 17 15 575 295 7,389 744 231 1,931 73 10,368 10 15 2,832 30 5 27 107

JOSEPH REED, Adjutant-General.

Return of General SCOTT’S Brigade, NEW-YORK, June 29, 1776.—Sixty-seven is the establishment for a Company.

REGIMENTS. OFFICERS PRESENT. RANK AND FILE. Wanting to complete.
Commissioned. Staff. Non-com missioned.
Colonels. Lieutenant-Colonels. Majors. Captains. First Lieutenants. Second Lieutenants. Ensigns. Chaplains. Adjutants. Quartermasters. Surgeons. Mates. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Present, fit for duty. Sick, present. Sick, absent. On Command. On Furlough. Total. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Rank and File.
Colonel Lasher 1 1 1 10 10 9 - - 1 1 - - 30 19 531 - - - - 531 - 1 139
Colonel Malcolm 1 1 1 9 10 9 - 1 1 1 1 - 27 16 293 4 - 4 - 301 3 4 369
Colonel Drake 1 1 1 10 9 8 - 1 1 - - - 27 18 487 12 - - 1 500 5 2 170
Four Commpanies,comm’d by Lt. Col.Hardenburgh - 1 - 4 4 4 - 1 - - - - 12 8 221 - - - - 221 - - 47
 
Total 3 4 3 33 33 30 - 3 3 2 1 - 96 55 1532 16 - 4 1 1553 8 7 725

* NEW-YORK, July I, 1776.—Last Friday, in the forenoon, was executed in a field between the Colonels McDougall and Huntington’s camp, near the Bowery Lane, (in the presence of near twenty thousand spectators,) a soldier belonging to his Excellency General Washington’s Guards, for mutiny and conspiracy ; being one of those who formed, and was soon to have put in execution, that horrid plot of assassinating the Staff-Officers, blowing up the magazines, and securing the passes of the town, on the arrival of the hungry Ministerial myrmidons. It is hoped the remainder of those miscreants, now in our possession, will meet with a punishment adequate to their crimes.

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