As we have already stated, the Royal troops which had been withdrawn from Boston and carried to Halifax, during the preceding March, " having suffi- " ciently recovered from the fatigues and sickness " occasioned by their confined situation in that town' ' [Boston, b ~\ left the later place, [Halifax] on the eleventh of June, 6 under convoy of Admiral Shuldham ; 7 reached Sandy-hook on the twenty-ninth of the same month; 8 landed on the northeastern shore of Staten-Island, between the second and fourth of July ; * and were welcomed by the persecuted inhabitants of that beautiful island, as their deliverers from the terrible oppression of the revolutionary powers, both that of New York and that of New Jersey. 10

On the afternoon of the twelfth of July, for the purpose of distressing the American Army, " by " obstructing supplies coming down the river and other "good consequences dependent on that measure" -- probably, also, for the purpose of offering encouragement to the conservative farmers of Westchestercounty to follow the example of those on Staten Island, in declaring for the King -- the Phtxnix, commanded by Captain Hyde Parker, of forty guns, the Rose, commanded by Captain Wallace, of twenty

" We would wish the Congress would pass some Resolve, to quiet their " fears ; and we are confident it would do essential service to the cause of " America, at least in this State." {Journal of the Provincial Convention, " Thursday morning, July It, 1776.")