Convention, dated at Philipse Manor, Westchester Co., March 28th, 1777, is copied from the original in the State Archives:

"The situation of affairs in our country is truly deplorable. We have daily accounts of cattle being stole and drove downwards to support our cruel, merciless and inveterate enemies, by our more than savage Tories, who have of late become so insulting as to hiss at men passing, and several have been fired at in the road. Isaac Oakley, at the Plains, was robbed of 36 head of cattle the night before last. Last evening a number of our Guard went down below Peter .Van Tassel's, consisting of Capt. Dean and 19 privates, and about 4 o'clock this morning were alarmed. A number of Regulars and Tories had come to Mr. Acker's, and were driving off all his stock, upon which a small skirmish ensued on their march to Mr. Van Tassel's, in which our men beat them off and saved the cattle. You have undoubtedly heard of Judge Thomas and Mr. Walter being taken prisoners and carried down. P. S. -- The Tories are daily going down in droves, 31 went at one time."

A letter from Gen. Sam'l Parsons' to Gen. Heath, dated Camp at the Highlands, Jan. 25, 1781, giving account of an expedition Jan. 22, 1781, to destroy "the Hutts in Morrisiana which covered the thieves assembled there under the direction of Col. DeLancey," says that "Capt. (Israel) Honeywell, who on this occasion had collected about seventy horsemen, was particularly serviceable."