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The detachment who took them, ought to be rewarded for their good behaviour; they have had assurances of this sort from the late General. Should these Indians be discharged, it will damp the ardour of our troops and injure the service. Be pleased to take some steps that their persons may be properly secured; and should you consider the property of the prisoners to belong to the captors, I would be exceedingly glad you would order the same to be delivered to Lieutenant Grier, and disposed of for the use of his detachment.

Be pleased to direct what is to be done with the plank, timber, cattle, &c.

We also brought some cattle belonging to one Gay, which are now at the Point.

I am, sir, your most humble servant,

THOMAS HARTLEY,Lieutenant-Colonel 6th Battalion of Pennsylvanians.

To the Honourable Brigadier-General Arnold, Commander at Crown-Point.

List of Artificers sent from CROWN-POINT to TICONDEROGA and SKENESBOROUGH, July 10, 1776.

Captain Edward Williams, Lieutenant Solomon Bowman, with sixty-five blacksmiths and armourers. The former, with Captain Williams, to go to Skenesborough, the latter, with Lieutenant Bowman, to remain at Ticonderoga.

Lieutenant Benjamin Beal with thirty-four house carpenters, Lieutenant Thayer with thirty-four house carpenters, Mr. Noah Nichols with eight wheelwrights and gun-carriage makers.

Richard Fittock with thirteen ship carpenters, to Skenesborough. Lieutenant William Curtis with thirteen ship carpenters, to Ticonderoga, if wanted, otherwise to Skenesborough.

B. ARNOLD, Brigadier-General.

GENERAL WARD TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Boston, July 11, 1776.

SIR: Enclosed are the Invoices* of the cargoes taken on board the Scotch transports, which I received from the Agents.

I am your Excellency's obedient humble servant,

ARTEMAS WARD.

To General Washington.

P. S. I have just received an account from Cape Ann, that two ships were, on the 6th instant, sent into that harbour by a privateer lately fitted out from this town. The prizes were from the West-Indies—one had four hundred hogsheads of rum for General Howe, the other was bound for England, with four hundred hogsheads of sugar, two hundred hogsheads of rum, cotton wool, &c., &c.

GENERAL WARD TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Boston, July 11, 1776.

SIR: Agreeable to your directions, I have forwarded all the arms and accoutrements fit for use that were in the hands of the Agents, lately taken from the Scotch prisoners. The Agents, without my knowledge, parted with part of the arms; part of them were taken by the commander of a Connecticut privateer, who assisted in taking the transports; and some, I am told, were thrown overboard by the prisoners, and others were broken; but I have not been able to obtain an exact return of the arms taken.

I am, your Excellency's obedient, humble servant,

ARTEMAS WARD.

To General Washington.

Boston, July 11, 1776.

Sent to Norwich, to the care of Joshua Huntington, Esq.: 73 arms, 60 bayonets, 73 bayonet belts, 73 slings, 73 shot-pouches, 50 cartridge-boxes, 73 knapsacks.

NATHANIEL BARBER, Jun., Deputy Commissary of Artillery.

TO THE JUSTICES IN MASSACHUSETTS EMPOWERED BY THE COURT TO DEAL WITH THE TORIES

GENTLEMEN: Lenity is a most excellent virtue; but there are certain seasons when it may betray us into a fatal neglect, by encouraging the determined enemies of the country to cabal and prosecute the basest measures for the destruction of our liberties. We may say of Toryism as of Popery, that it is always the same. There are worthy individuals among the professors of both; and a few rare instances of real converts from each, through an increase of knowledge; but the prevailing spirit of the parties is uniform and abiding. I do not mean that either of them should therefore be knocked on the head for their noxious sentiments, or be deprived of any privileges which can be enjoyed by them without hazard to ourselves, unless by their behaviour they have made or do make a forfeiture thereof. However, we are led by the first Jaw of nature, the innate principle of self-preservation, to prevent their having it in their power to do us a mischief, when we know how ready they are to give in to the basest methods, that they may carry their point, and to think that the end will sanctify the means. Are any so weak as to imagine that their words are to be taken, and that they will be peaceable and inoffensive, and will not intermeddle more in the present dispute, seeing that they have been so tenderly dealt with by the publick in general, and so cordially received again into favour by particular individuals: let them hurry to New-York, and view that horrid, infernal plot, that their brethren had laid for the destruction of Generals, Army, and the whole American cause, at a single blow. Let them inquire whether—though they may now hang down their heads through chagrin that the plot has not succeeded, not through shame that it was ever laid—they have not lately behaved rudely towards the country; showed all possible publick friendship for the Highland officers, and concern at their captive situation, and allowed our brave countrymen to be styled Rebels at table, without animadverting upon the indecency of it. I am not for censuring a polite treatment to those gentlemen who, by the fortune of war, are thrown into our hands. No; let them see that we are not cowards, by our declining everything that looks like insolence and

95 small-arms, 88 bayonets, 80 cartouch-boxes, 65 bags bread, 9 bags bread, 2 hogsheads and 1 barrel bread, 2½ barrels powder, 12 barrels pease, part of a barrel currants, 1 tierce and an ullage vinegar, 2 hogsheads rum, 1 ullage rum, 6 barrels pork, 25 barrels beef, 13 barrels oatmeal, 1 barrel barley, 1 keg barley, 5 barrels flour, 1 barrel herrings, 1 cask canteens and kettles, 54 soldiers' blankets, 1 barrel meal, 1 box candles, 4 bundles iron hoops, 1 cask tent pins and mallets, 10 remnants of cordage, 6 hammocks, 6 iron spades, 3 boxes and 1 ullage bullets, 3 pair handscrews, 2 remnants of duffils, 93 cutlasses, 110 canvass knap-sacks, 1 markee, 36 hatchets, 8 bags horsebeans and oats, 1 keg butter, 1 halbert, 1 tent spear, 2 drums.

BOSTON, July 11, 1776.

61 small-arms, 10 loaves sugar, 240 pair shoes, 23 soldiers' tents, 8 barrels and 3 ullages oatmeal (damaged), 3 casks pease, 7 casks pork, 23 casks beef, 1 ullage vinegar, 4 hogsheads and 1 tierce rum, 6 iron spades, 2 shod shovels, 1 piece sheet lead, 1 firkin butter, 40 tent poles, 5 pack-saddles, 3 barrels flour, 90 cartouch-boxes, 17 leather bullet-pouches, 42 leather bullet-pouches, 16 leather shoulder-straps, 25 gun-straps, 30 cutlasses, 1 drum, 1 halbert, 1 bag oatmeal, 1 keg musket bullets, 3 pack-saddles, 18 pieces checked and striped linen, 5 pieces white linen, 57 bayonets, 16 belts.

BOSTON, July 11, 1776.

20 fusees, 35 small-arms, 6 kegs bullets and shot, 6 bundles cartridge paper, part of a keg flints, 2 kegs part filled with cartridges, a cask containing a few books, 1 bundle bedding, 2 trunks and 2 portmanteaus, 1 black trunk, 1 bundle containing a tent, 1 black canteen, 1 bed bundle, 1 chest, 1 portmanteau, 3 casks bottled porter, 3 casks bottled wine, 1 cask hams, 7 hogsheads and part of a hogshead rum, 361 black shoulder-belts, 74 bundles gun-straps, 1 field-bed and 2 bundles bedding, 4 markees, Colonel Campbell's camp equipage, the Quartermaster's camp equipage, 1 bundle, a bundle not directed, 3 field tents and materials, 6 bundles tent poles for markees, 12 bundles common tent poles, 7 bundles leather bullet pouches, 13 hair pouches, 3 cartouch-boxes, 62 camp tents, a remnant ticklenburg, 1 cask and 2 bundles tent pins, a cask tin canteens and 69 loose canteens, 10 tin pans, 23 camp kettles, 1 package tent stools, 3 bayonets, 4 halberts, 1 riding saddle, 1 travelling pack-saddle, 82 canvass knapsacks, 199 hair knapsacks, a bale containing 80 blankets, a bale containing 50 watch-coats, 1 box black plumes, 4 bundles soldiers' clothing, 1 bundle stockings, 3 pairs shoes, 2 bags with belts and knapsacks, 2 pieces plaid, 7 bonnets, 2 pieces and part of a piece duffils, 144 soldiers' blankets, 33 beds, 85 pillows, a bale brown paper, 44 hatchets, 1 bundle twine, 1 cask sheathing nails, 2 casks fivepenny nails, 1 set small weights, 2 iron spades, part of a cask currants, 13 barrels pease, 6 barrels flour, 2 barrels barley, 9 barrels pork, 27 barrels beef, 19 kegs butter, 15 barrels oatmeal, 2 tierces and part of a tierce vinegar, 2 barrels herring, 1 bag oats, 74 bags bread, 14 casks bread (damaged), 104 water casks, 74 dozen bottles.

BOSTON, July 11, 1776.