* Journal of Die Convention, "Thursday morning.July 18, 1776 ;" General Washington to John Augustine Washington, "New York, 22 July, "1776."

< Pierre Van Cortlandt and ZepJianiah Piatt, Jnnr. to the Convention, " Pkeksk [i.i,, July 18, 1776."

» General Washington to the Convention, " Head-quarters, New York, "July 19, 1776."

6 Pierre Van Cortlandt and Zephaniah Piatt, Jnnr. to the Convention, "Pebkskill, July 22, 1776."

t Memoirs of Major-general Heath, 50.

^Pierre Van Cortlandt and Zephaniah Plait,' Jnnr. to the Convention, '' Head-quarters, Mouth of Croton, Angt. 2, 1776."

On the twenty-sixth of July, Joshua, Bon of Caleb Ferris-- a member of the County Committee, during 1775-6-- went on board the Pluenix, remaining all night ; and Philip Schiirmnu-- who had been in Boston, while the Koyal Army had occupied the Town ; who had been taken prisoner, by the Americans; and who had been released by reason of personal influence of his friends-- Frederic Secore, "one Bailey,"* and Lewis Purdy, "from Croton River," are also known to have gone to the same ship, on that day or subsequently. (Examinations of Joshua Ferris, Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxxv., 69, 85.)

* On Sunday night, the twenty-eighth of July, because the New England troops had gone away, on the preceding day, leaving the river-line unguarded, the boats from the ships went ashore, "at one Bailey's," near the mouth of Croton-river ; " went back, half a mile ; and drove off " a pair of oxen, two cows, one calf, one heifer, and eleven sheep : no "doubt had the assistance of some Tories, on Bhore." [Pierre Van Cortlandt and Zephaniah Piatt, Junr., to tJte Convention, '* Head quarters, "Mouth of Croton, Augt. 2,1776.")