He was almost totally blind ; and that and his unusual corpulency unfitted him for the slightest personal opposition to or supiiort of any political or military movements; while his fondness for gardouing, in all its branches, to which the grounds of his Jlanor-houses, at Yonkera and Sleepy Hollow, bore ample testimony, and bis domestic ties, and his unusual love of home, led him to prefer the ipiiet and retired life for which he was distinguished, instead of that more active and more public life to which, from his rank and standing and purity of character, he was so completely entitled.

^General Washiugtnii bi G"rernor Tnimbull, "New-York, H .\ugust, "177C."

2 The Convention it^elf wa.*, then, sitting in the old Dutch Church at Harlem ; but the Generars correspondence, on the subject under consideration, had been, undoubtedly, with the Conunittee, who was nearer.

See, also, Gtfiieral Wai^htu/jt/iii Ui Oeiu-ral M'Uluim Lirin(/titonj **nEAD- "yu.vRTKK.s, New-Yokk, July d, 1776, Five o'clock, P.M."

s Tlie ConieiUion to General WasliiiigUm, " Tuesday, A.M., Augt. 13, "1776."

*Jourtial of the Contenti'm, "Die Luna;, 8 ho., A.M., July 22, 1770 ;" the snme, " Die Martis, S ho., -\.M., July 23, 1776 ;" lite Coni-eHtion to the hepntatton iit the Conlinentnl Ckjttgref^, ** H-vri.em, 7 Augt., 1776 ;" etc.

^Jounml of the OmieiUivn, "Friday afternoon, July 19, 1776;" the $ame, "Die Sabbati, 4 ho., P.M., Augt. 24, 1776 ;" the same, "Saturday "morning, September 28, 177G ; " etc.

^Jonriial of the Comenlion, "DieLunfc, 9 ho., A.M., .luly 22, 17T6 ; " Journal of the Committee of Sofelij, " Ax the house of Me. Odell, Puil- "ii'se's Manor, Augt. 31, 1776 ;" etc.