The Inhabitants in the lower parts of West Chester County are full of stock, excepting the well affected, who are stripped of all their stock of all kinds, &c…. "The Com- -missioners shd be invested with power to get off all the stock south of where the Court House stood in White Plains, & South of the road leading from the Plains to Rye, & South of Tarry Town." &c. &c. p. 465. / "Letter from Genl. McDougall." - "Peekskill, 14th June, 1777." "Gent." \ …You remember the enemy stole Judge Thomas & a Mr. Miller, Chairman of the Committee at the Plains. The latter is a man of great merit, now confined. The former was returned to the provost guard after he was inoculated. &c." p. 470. / Col.
David D. Sutherland - to - the N. Y. Convention." Charlotea [Charlotte?] Precinct, May 3, 1777." "Gentn….I am of the opinion that if the men of war troops land at Peekskill, our troops will rise to join them. There are 2 companies in my regiment, by whom no resolution can be carried into execution, being influenced by some evil minded persons. &c. &c." p. 477. / "Letter from Joseph Bull, taken a prisoner. - at New Rochelle - to - Genl. Woodhull at Haerlem." Sir \ I was last Friday evening taken in custody by order of Genl. Scott, since wh time I have been kept a prisoner, (tho' humanely treated) at New Rochel, & by letter from Genl. Scott, I am acquanted I must go on board a sloop for Norwich in Connecticut." &c. &c. … "P.S.
If Collo. Philips Colo. Corsa, & myself, must proceed, we should be glad to give security & proceed by land. - a boat will be exceedingly disagreeable at this hot season, & most of us subject to be sea sick.