McDougall burnt the stores & retired to the barracks No.2, on a hill, at Peekskill: yt [that] the sd [said] Capt said he saw the enemy fire a field piece from about Peemort's, wh [which] killed one & wounded 1 or 2; - that Genl McDougall has some troops, but not enough to stand them." p. 847. / "Thursday, May 22d, 1777." "Levi Quimby brought before the coun- -cil of Safety & examind, says, - he left New York on last Wednesday week, came into thro' Westchester, & crossed Croton: - that there are about 800 men at the Bridge & Fort Washington, &c." … "That most of the soldiers about the Bridge are Hessians &c." … "That there are rangers about the Bridge called Rogers' rangers dressed in green coats, white waistcoats & breeches; - - that they are 400 or 500 in number." &c. &c. p. 940. / "June 2nd 1777 - a letter from Col.
Cornelius Humphrey, informing the Council of Safety, that Major Brinton Payne, whom he appointed to that rank by authority of the Committee of Safety, in January last, & was taken prisoner at the house of Stephen Ward in West-Chester County, is confined in New York & treated as a private, for want of a commission. The letter conclude by asking for a Commission &c." p. 952. / <manicule> "On the 11th of Feby. 1777 it *w. resolved* yt. [that] the Convention will adjourn from this place [Fishkill] to Kingston in Ulster County, to meet on the 19th inst. &c." See preceding p. p.803 / "May 3d 1777." "The House" [Provincial Convention] "proceeded to the consid- -eration of the temporary form of Government. &c?" - "A Council of Safety consisting of 15 members was thereupon elected &c." pp. 910. 911. / "Octr. 7, 1777." "The members of the Senate & Assembly, for the State of New York convened this day, by unanimous consent, to form a Convention for the sd.