Tomp kins came into Convention & informed that Mr. Lounsberry was *come* into West Chester County with a commission from Genl Howe to raise rangers - that a party in the militia went in pursuit of him & were under the necessity of killing him, as he wd not surrender; - another was wounded & 4 were taken prisoners, all his recruits." [From this it ^would seem ^* that Lounsberry was killed the day before, i.e. August 28 1776.] p. 599. / "August 29 1776" "Papers &c. found upon Lounsberry referred to a committee." … "Ordered, that Bloomer Nelson, Samuel Haines, Josiah Disberry, & Jacob Schurman, be committed to the Jail at Kingston & there kept. &" Ordered that the Treasurer of this convention pay to Jonathan Tompkins Esq. the sum of 20 dollars to be by him delivered to Mr. ^John Flood [X], as a reward for his spirited conduct in apprehending Wm. Lounsberry a notorious enemy ot the cause of America in West Chester County. &c." "Ordrd yt the Treasurer of the State & *Secretaries* of the Convention do immediately remove with the treasury & records of this State to Fishkills in Dutchess County to join the Convention ^there at 9 o'clock on Monday next, &c." / [X] ["John Flood the boatman" p. 250.] p. 600
"August 31, '76 - The inhabitants of N.Y. island & the southern part of West Chester county (wh are exposed to the depredations of the enemy &c.) ordered to drive, forth with their horned cattle, horses, hogs, & sheep, into the interior of this State, &c." p. 603. / "Sept. 3d 76 - Genl Clinton's encampment at Kingsbridge &c. p.6[illegible] / "Sept. 7h '76 - That to render Fort Constitution tenable the West point that com mands it ought to be fortified: - That considerable progress is made in fortifying an advantageous eminence on the Western shore, a little to the south of Fort Montgomery.