Very ungraciously and, certainly, not in such words as were calculated to inspire respect for those who had employed them, among those against whom they were thus tossed, by the aristocratic masterspirits of the Convention, 3 Orders were issued to Captain Micah Townsend, who had probably been sent from the Plains to Tarrytown, on the day after the arrival of the ships, to remain at the latter place, with his Company ; Colonel Thomas was ordered to send 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 who should be, called into the service. 4 But, on the following day, [July 16, 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 passed a house on the western side the river ; and by their anchoring a short distance below Verplanck's-point, and " opposite the stores at Hav-

1 Vide page 208, ante.

'Journal of the Convention, "Die Luna;, P.M., July 15, 1776."

8 The Convention to Lieutenant-colonel Hammond, " In Convention for " the State op New-York, White Plains, July 15, 1776."

* Journal of the Convention, "Die Luna-, P.M., July 15, 1776;" the Convention to Lieutenant-colonel Hammond, "In Convention for the " State of New- York, White Plains, July 15, 1776."