Very ungraciously and, certainly, not in such words as were calculated to inspire respect for those who had employed tlicm, among those against whom they were thus tossed, by the aristocratic masterspirits of the Convention,^ Orders were issued to Ca|)tain Micali Townsend, who had probably been sent from the Plains to Tarrytown, on the day after the arrival of the shi[)s, to remain at the latter place, with his Company; Colonel Thomas was ordered to seiul detachments from his Regiment, to relieve those who had not returned to their homes; and the pay and rations allowed to the Continental troops, were promised to those who were, as well as to those wlio should be, called into the service.' But, on the following day, lJu/ij 10, 1776,] all those in the neighborhood of Tarrytown were relieved from immediate danger, by the ships and their tenders weighing their anchors and sailing up the river, occasionally firing a shot, as they pa.ssed a house on the western side the river; and by their anchoring a short distance below Verplanck's-point, and " oj)posite the stores at Hav-

■ Viile l>i»ee 384, ante.

^jDUrnal of the Conrniliim, "Die Ijiina-, P.M., .Inly 1.% 177ri."

3 The C'>»fe»lion lo Limtentntt-coloncl Hnmmniui^ " In Convkntion for " THE State of New- York, White Plains, .July l.l, 1776."

*Jnurnaln/ the Coiiviilion, "Die Luu.t, P.M., July 15, 1776 ;" tlie ConveiUion to Lieitteiiaut-cnlouel Hfimmond^ " Is Convention for the "State of New- York, White Plains, July 15, 1776."

"erstraw." During the afternoon of the same day, one of the tenders beat up the river, against an unfavorable wind, sounding the river very carefully as she proceeded, until she had come within gun-shot of Fort Montgomery, when her progress was arrested by a thirty-two pound shot, which struck her, and compelled her to put about, and to run down the ri\er, not, however, without having plundered a little house which stood near the river.*