Livingston, which the Committee of Safety sent to the General, with a peremptory Order to take the command of his Brigade, dated " Octol)er the 8th, 1776," did not effect its purpose, it certainly conveyed to the bashful Brigadier an evidence of what others thought of his remaikable ('onduct, as a soldier.

3 Two ships and a brig came to anchor, a little above Throgg's-neck, on the twenty-seventh of August; and made a raid on City-island' {vicie page .'i'J5, ante.)

* Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Tuesday morning, August 27, "1776."

6 Colonel Joseph Drake to the Convention,"yiv.v. -UocHKLh, Augt. 28,1776." <>Jouriial of the Convention, "Thursday morning, Augt. 29, 1776."

followed, holding sessions, while on it way, at King's Bridge,' at the house of Mr. Odell on Philipse's Manor,** at the house of John Blagge, at Crotonriver f and, possibly, elsewhere.'" It constructed fireships, for the protection of the Hudson-river from the enemy's vessels and it continued the support of the State's cruisers, on the ocean.'- It attended to the removal of the military stores which were endangered by the movements of the enemy ; " it ordered all the bells to be taken from the Churches" and all the brass knockers from the doors of houses,'* " in order that the " fortune of War may not throw the same into the " hands of our enemy and deprive this State, at this "critical period, of that necessary, though unfortu- " iiate, resource for supplying our want of cannon ; " it provided Lances for those of the Militia whom it was unable to provide with other arms ; and when General Washington's supply of Gunpowder had become unsafely small, it replenished it from its own resources." It appointed, on the motion of John Jay, a special " Committee of Safety and Correspondence " for that part of this State which lies below the " Highlands," Colonel Henry Remsen, Major Garret Abeel, and Major Peter Pra Van Zandt, all of them of the City of New York, having been appointed as that Committee but, notwithstanding James Duane and John Jay and William Duer were also appointed " to draw up Instructions " for that Committee, and notwithstanding the stirring events of which that portion of the State, " below the Highlands," very soon became the scene, nothing more was heard of either the Instructions or the Committee of Safety which was thus erected.