Clinton" - "In Council of Safety. *, Decr. 16th, 1779." "Sir\ ……The information wh [which] we recd, as well as the Excellency's last letter, as by other * of the burning of Genl De Lancey's house, gave this Council great uneasiness. We think this a *most unequal* method of waging war with the enemy, because neither we nor they can possibly destroy any but what are properly our own houses; & we fear that * conspic- -ous* an example of the destruction of Mr. DeLanceys Mansion house will be industiously followed by the enemy, to *the ruin* of many of the good subjects of this State. For those reasons, *sir*, we most earnestly intreat yr [your] utmost * to put a stop to practices, on our part, the* maybe attended with the most destructive retaliations by the enemy." - p.1101. / Letters from Govr. George Clinton to the Council of Safety, on the British expedition * the Hudson in Octr 1777. &c. &c. pp. 1063, '4, '5, '6, '7, '8, '9. 1074. Letters on the same subject to Gov. Trumbull - Co & New York Delegates in Congress to & Congress of the U.S. of America; to Gov. Clinton &c. pp. 1063, - '72, '5, '82, '92. /
Extracts from the Journals of the Provincial Congress, Provincial Convention, Committee of Safety, & Council of Safety. Volume 2, containing the correspondence of those bodies. Vol. 2. Officers appointed by the Congress George Washington Esq. General & Command* Chief of all the forces raised or to be raised for the defense of American liberty. Artemas Ward Esq. first Major General Charles Lee Esq. 2nd Major General Philip Schuyler Esq. 3d. Major General Israel Putnam Esq. 4th. Major General Seth Pomeroy Esq. 1st Brigadier General Richard Montgomery Esq. 2nd Brigadier General David Wooster Esq. 3d do.