' " The Inhabitants of this C'ity are much alarmed at various confident "advises of your destination, with a considerable body of forces, for " active service, here. * * * We should not have troubled you with "this application, had it not been to procure such information from you "as may enable us, in a prudent use of it, to allay the fears of our in- " habitants, who, at this inclement season of the year, will continue, as "they have already begun, to remove their women and children, and "which, if continued, may occasion hundreds to perish, for want of "shelter," {TJie O^mmiUee of Safely to General Clutrles Lee, "In Commit- "tee OF S.vFETV, New-Yokk, 21st Jany, 1776.")

"This City is in Terror and confusion : One half of its inhabitants "have withdrawn with their effects, hundreds without the means to "support their families," {Governor Tigon to the Earl of Dartmouth "Ship Ditchess of Gordon off New York S"" Feby 1776.")

See, also, the Order of the Provincial Congress to the male Refugees, to return Ui the Cily -- Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Veneris, 10 "ho., A.M., May 10, 1770 ;" Memorial of the Vestry of the CUy to the Provincitd Congress, May 30, 1776 ; etc.

' William Smith, Chairman, to the Committee of Safely, "Suffolk- " COUNTY, Jany 24, 1776;"

^Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, "On Bo.^rd the "Ship Ditchess of Gordon New York H.vrbour, 6th Deer. 1775 ;" the nme. No. 25, "On Board the Ship Dutuuess of Gordon New York "Harbovr, 3d Janry 1776;" etc.