- On tlie tweuty-ninth of .\ugust, ITTii, "one I.ounsl)erry of Westcliester '' County who had headed a party of ahoiit 14 Tories wsis killed by a I'er- '*son named Flood on his refusal to surrender himself Prisoner ; That in *'hi8 Pocket hook was found a O'tiuniission signed hy Genl. llow to " Major Rogers empowering him to raise a Battalion of Rangers with the "Rank of Lieut (^ol Coninianilant. Thai annexed to tin's Wiis aWarranl " U) this Louiisherry signed by Major Rogers appointing him Cajitain in " one of these Companies .V a Muster Roll of the men already enlisted," [Letier fr(mi the OmmiW'e uf HiifHij t/t Hi'ui'i-al WitshitiijUni, " Is CnMjirr- " TKE OF Safktv, Harlem, Augt liOtli, 177G." )

Very probably, the William Lounsberry who is mentioned in the tex( was the same Lounsberry who had accepted a ('ommission from Majoi Rogers, and wa* killed, in August, 177ri, as stated in the letter.

3 The Sutton referred to was William Sutton, Ksq., living on lie Lan cey'd Neck, of which he w;us the tenant, [rub- piu/e '^W}^ atitf.)

that it did, in "this matter" -- of which the following is a copy :

" In Provincial Congress, "At New-York, November 3rd, 1775. " Gentlemen :

" We received a letter of the 1st inst., from the "Sub-committee of your County, relative to the " conduct of the people of Rye ; and the Congress "have directed me to recommend to your Com- "mittee to make an immediate and strict inquiry "into the matters to which the letter refers, and "to take the examinations on oath of the wit- "nesses; and if you find satisfactory reasons to sup- " pose the persons threatened to be in danger, that " you take the proper means to protect them ; perhaj)s " the binding over to the peace such persons as may "be strongly suspected of a design to injure the per- "sons or estates of those gentlemen, may be a useful " expedient.* If anything afterwards shall be thought " necessary to be done, for their further protection, "the Committee will attend to it.