Peyster, being sworn, depos- "eth and saith that, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the fourth, " fifth, and sixth days of September instant, he w:i3 at New-Rochelle, in "the County of Westchester; that on one of the above-named days, he "heard, (as far as he can at present recollect, 1 either Theodosius Bartow, "of New-Roehelle aforesaid, or Anthony Abrahams, of the Town of " Westchester, in substance, say, in a conversation this Deponent bad " with the one or the other of them, on the American contest, that Jo- ".^eph Re.ade, late of the City of New- York, .Vttorney-at-Law, but, at "present, as this Deponent undei'stood, a resident in the Town of Weat- " Chester, was reputed a great Tor.v ; that the chief of bis, the said .lo- " sepli Readers, convereation Wiis of the Tory kind; and that he, the "said Joseph Reade, had reported that, in the late Battle on Long I»- "land, between the American Army and that of the King of Great " Britain, the .\mericans had lost either seven or fourteen thousand men. "(This Deponent cannot now recollect which of the two numbers was "mentioned, but rather thinks fourteen.) This Deponent further says, "tliat the amount of all he heard at New-Rochelle, at the time aforo- " said, respecting .loseph Reade, was, that the said Joseph Reade was a "great Tory and very unfriendly to the American cause, and further " this Deponent saith not.

"A. W. D. Pkvstee.

" Sworn before me, this 10th 1 Sept., 1770. J " Abm. Yates, June., President."