Macdonald's Research Notes

James Holmes not in the list. - Qu? Was this the cause of his leaving the Amr. service? <manicule> "Capt Horton" [Ambrose]?> "of the 4 regt. is willing to continue in the service" p. 328. / "March 1st 1776 - About this time the Commissioners for building the fortifications in the Highlands commenced the Forts at *Porplonens kill*. p. 331, 332. / Cannon=Spikers. "March 6, 1776. Ordered yt Col. Waterberry be requested to send down Wm. Loundsberry & the other persons confined in the upper barracks for making spikes & spiking up the cannon beyond Kingsbridge in West Chester County, to this Congress at the City Hall, at 5 P.M. &c." "William Lounsberry examd says - That the first movers of spiking the cannon were Joshua Gidney & Burrell - That they had 70 or 80 spikes made, & went down, & found so many cannon that it was not worth while." [From this it wd. seem yt [that] an attempt to spike &c was made previously to the 17th of January] -" That he does not know who spiked up the large parcel of guns. &…He went to Col.

Philipse's the day before the cannon were spiked to know whether he wd. [would] set up again as a representative - That he set off from home with an intention to spike the guns or disarm them. That the following persons were with him vizt. - Joshua Gidney, Josiah Burrell, William Haines, Thomas Haines, ^& James Haines, junr ** -- That his reason for disabling the cannon was that as the New England people had done several acts wh he thought harsh he wanted p. 341. /