We have already alluded,'" incidentally, to the robberies of Horses which were inflicted on the farmers of that County, by Officers of the American Army, for their private uses, at their respective homes -- not by the Rank and File, nor by the soldiers' wives and concubines, nor in a foreign country ; but by the Commissioned Officers of the Army of Americans who had been moved into the County, for the protection of the inhabitants and of their properties. To such an extent were those robberies of Horses, to be sent to the homes of the thieves, for their private uses, carried on, that, after several General Orders, bearing on the subject, had

1 General Washinglonto Governor Livingston, " WiinE-l'LAixs, 7 No- " vember, 1770."

Ill a letter to Genenil Greene, written on the same day, the (ieiieral said, "Tliey," [the farmers, in Ni w Jersey,] "may rely upon it, that the " enemy wil Heave nothing they find anions them; nor do they dis- " criminate between Whig and Tory. Woful e.xperience Inui convinci d " the latter, in the niovenieiitsof the enemy, in this State, of this trnth." -- (General Washington to General Greene, " Whitk-I'lai.vs, November 7, "1771-..")

8 "The people who remained in that part of the country," [Weslclietter-couiily,] " through which they pass'd, have been most cruelly plun- " dered ; many helpless women had even their shifts taken from their " backs by the soldiers' wives, after the great plunderers had done ; and, " in this general ravage, no discrimination was made of Whig or Tory." (lA^Uer from Stamford, A&tei "12th Nov. 1776," published in The Freeman's Journal, or New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I., No. 28, Portsmouth, Tuesday, December 3, 1776.)