^ Jonrnal of the Cuncention, *' Tluirsdiiy uiorniug.July 18, 1770 Gen' eral Waahinfiton to John Awjutitine Wiuihinyt'oi, *' New Youk, 22 July, "177U."
* Pierre Van Otrthtndt and Zephaniah Piatt, Jnnr. to the Convention, " Peekskill, July 18, 1776."
' General Washioijton to the Coneentiun, " IlEAU-ijUARTERS, NEW YORK, "July I'J, 1770."
^Pierre Van (.'orlUuuU and Zephaniah Piatt, Junr. to the Conveuti'm, " Pekkskill, July 22, 1770." ' Memoirs uf Major-yeiieral HeMh, 50.
"Pierre Van CorlUimlt and Zephaniah Pliitl, Junr. to the Conreution, '■ Ueaimji abtebs, MoiTii OK Croton, .\ugt. 2, 177G.''
On thetweuty-si.vtli of July, Jusliuu, sou of Caleb Ferris -- a member of tlie County Couunittee, Juriug 1775-0 -- weut uu board tbe Phienii, remaiuingall night ; awX Philip Schuriu:iu -- who htul been in Boston, while the K<)yiil .\rn)y had occuitied the Town ; who had been taken pricioner, by the .VuieriCiins; and who hail been releaijed by reason of (»ertkjnal intlueuce of his friends-- Frederic Secore, ''one Bailey,"* and Lewia Purdy, " from C'rotou River," are also known to hare gone to the same ohip, on that day or subsequently. {ExamiiuUionA of Joshua Ferris, Uiiitoricat Manuscripts, etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxxv., GO, 85.)
* On Sunday night, the twenty-eighth of July, because the New England troops ^ad gone away, on the preceding day, leaving the river-line unguarded, the boatd from the shii>s went ashore, "atone Bailey's," near the mouth of Crotou-rivor ; " weut back, half a mile ; and drove off " a pair of o.xcn, two cows!, one calf, onti heifer, and eleven sheep : no "doubt had the assistance of some Tories, on shore." {Pierre Van CortUtndt and Zepltaniah PlaU, Junr., to the Convention, *' Head qI'akters, "MoiTU OF Crot>in, .\ugt. 2, 1770.")