"That we have been and are still greatly exposed to the ravages "of the enemy, and that during the contest they have been up among "us as far as Tarry Town four different times with considerable armies, "and that the losses sustained and the distress occasioned thereby to "the unfortunate families where they came is not to be conceived.

"That many of us have repeatedly lost all of our stock and been "plundered of wearing apparel, beds, beef, pork; and such furniture "as they could not carry off has been wantonly stove to pieces.

"That we have several instances of the enemy burning our "houses, barns, etc., the unhappy sufferers being turned out of doors "in inclement seasons of the year, thus reducing from comfortable liv- "ing to that of indigence and distress.

"That those inhabitants who have escaped the ravages of the "enemy's armies have suffered by the Tories, and that not a single "instance occurs to us of an avowed friend to our cause, but what has "been greatly affected.

"That several of our friends have been carried off out of their "beds and hurried to the Provost at New York, and that a number of "us dare not sleep in our own houses, but are obliged to seek shelter "where wre consider ourselves more safe."

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MONUMENT DEDICA TION.

Many of them languished in British prison pens or in pestilential holds of British prison ships; and not a few were included among the Eleven Thousand and Five Hundred patriot prisoners who, in and about New York City, miserably perished in those accursed dungeons and prison ships. Some of them died on the field in open honorable warfare, glorious deaths. One, at least, fell a victim to the Tories' murderous hate, which rendered "the neutral ground" to the southward so dark and bloody.