An interposition so rash, officious, & violent, gave us great anxiety, as it was not only a high insult to the authority, but had a direct tendency to confirm that fatal spirit of jealousy & distrust of our Eastern brethren, *which* has done so much injury to our cause, & *which* every wise & virtuous pat: triot shd. [should] study to surpress. &c." p. 243. / Thomas Henderson, a Major of Minute men in Monmouth County, New Jersey, attended the Committee of safety, & informed that he was sent by the Committee of Safety of New Jersey, with a guard, to conduct several prisoners taken in New Jersey, being inhabt. of this colony, who had been proceding in the Sloop "Polly & Ann, from this port to Boston.
Major H. delivered the affidavit of one *James* Webb, who undr oath, says that in December last, he entered on board a small Sloop, in New York harbour, called the Polly & Ann, where of one Haines was captain, bound &c. to Boston, *which* vessel was laden with provisions. &c…That *said* vessel sailed from N.Y. on the 20th of Decr. last &c….That on the 23d of Decr. *that* said vessel was stranded on the Jersey shore. That the Capt. of said sloop, one Isaac Gedney, Master, Bartholomew Haines a passenger, one Palmer who owned part of the cargo, all from Mamaroneck, in WestChester county, Moses Marden, one Graham, this Deponent & his wife, with one Sanford & 2 more, were on board said vessel when she stranded." Proceedings in New Jersey of the Committee of safety, Prince-town, January 11th, 1776… … "A small sloop, called the Polly & Ann, one Haines Captain, was on the 23d of Decr last, stranded on Squam beach, on board of *which* w. a quantity of beef, pork, & other provisions; &…& one James Webb a passenger &c. …appeared before this Committee, by whose deposition it appears, that said vessel w. bound from New York to Boston, &…the provisions on board w. designed for the ministerial army. &c….It appears that said Capt., Master & passengers of the said sloop, Polly & Ann, stranded on Squam Beach, are Inhabitants of the colony of New York &c., p. 257.