George Clinton * The Convention, on the applications of the inhabitants of Westchester County, who complain of inroads made upon them by a party of rangers under the command of Major Rodgers, have come to the resolution to dispatch Colonels Malcolm & Thomas with their regiments, who will be joined by some of the militia of Westchester County & 3 companies of rangers, in order to fall upon the troops of the enemy & remove the stock & grain from the sd. County. - You will be pleased therefore to give the *confirming* Orders." p. 749. / "January 1st, 1777. - The Convention to Genl. Washington." **… .." We lately applied to Genl. Schuyler for some of the northern troops, to defend the passes in the Highlands & protect the inhabitants of Westchester, who were, notwithstanding Genl.
Spencer's & Wooster's troops, cruelly harassed by 700 rangers under command of Col. Rodgers. He then informed us yt. no troops * be spared, &c. p. 753 / "Genl Alexr McDougall - to - the N.Y. Comm. of Safety." "Peekskill, 21st of Jany. 1777 … … nothing material was cast up in our army under Genl Heath, by advice from him yesterday. Fort Independence was to be invested today. The garrison with a *reinforcement* it has received since our army advanced, consists of 350 men, mostly of Rodgers Corps. &c. &c. p. 781. / "Feb. 6th 1777 - The Committee "[of safety for N.Y.]" were informed that Samuel Lyon, of Rye Manor, & Col. Thomas Thomas, with 6 men, on board of a private small boat of war, Flying Fish, took a sloop, Indus -try loaded with 15 cords of wood, 17 ½ barrels of cider & vinegar, one suit of sails & rigging for another vessel, 7 or 8 small bags of meal, navigated with 7 men and women, lately the property of & commanded by Abraham Selleck & bound from Oyster Bay on Nassau island, to the City of New York." p. 798. / "The Committee of Safety - to - Genl.