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^h Cetgrofi hif,^,#?! for t'^ cffic^ :^d. plram
of th# t-9,,1 of hsrfe wh> wero e^p^,^ in the kft
campaign is the ferri^rf th# United S at®,.
I have the henor to ba wi h great terpea.
Sir,
Year raeft obedient and humble fervent,
B, order, Abraham Ten Brorck, Profident.
Tbs H^ 'Jobs H&*c^k Ejq; Prefidrat, Efe.
I* Council of Safety, State ^Vermont.
Bmi*p% 31, %/>, 1777.
Tethe Inhabitants cf the STATE @f Vermont.
GE 1 FLEM^N,
THERE c^a be nodaubt but many of you have
ami the par#ni of the printed refutations el the
honorable th# Cjatiaeatal Cangrofs of the goth of
left ni^nth.
I ea dirw&ed to tranfmitycu herewith attafted ce
pl^ rfih^feveral refolrti^ns puffed in the committee
of fafity for th. State ts New-York, together with
Copies of ihs federal letters from the fame board ;
which were dired d to the h pourable the coatimental
c^,^fs, by which you will readily fed that New-
Yo k have elevated to iafiaum, may even charge
that honorable body of having countenanced a dif
^sk^ri^g of ths S ate of Niw-York, " at a time
«' when hey bright be feppofed to be incapacitated
*< fan defending thrizjsft claims." You will alfn
rb^ve^ that in the refolution# of the committee of
fifty ter the State of New Y^k, they reqweft the
heatabie the congrafs to intarpefs their authority,
aid r^comra ?nd to thofs inhabitants a peaceable fab.
raiffisa to t^ juifdiaien of the Stat, efNew York ;
nod ^fa tod (b ind the regiment dind^d 10 be railed
b, C &1. Warner. Neither of which rqaifitions are
even ^ ranch as earned is the Aid printed reflations
of cog ^fs ; star is there a ward contained therein
that f; much as recommends to this people a peaceable
fabmiflisn to # h< State of New Y^k ;or even a desire
t® th>G iA^hiueu to defitt in she prefeention of fra
^a'.^g Icm+^nu^a fir t^eir future government.
I. is to be ~em±ed that the delegates appointed to
wait m C ^^fi navar roprefented to the general
cuAvra inn. that*hs honorable 'he c&ngrefi (as a be
d^ ) v^r had eec^a &gtd thafo inhabitants in a fipe
rnrisa fro^ N^ Y^ : But, as he S ate of New-
Y\k b, Uri- letvs hive chatgid that honorable be
d, t^earith, the? con d do s.o left than acquit &ra
f^v^fr^a the c'wg#, which <h„ have effr&ually
dns, and is the principal thing aimed at in said
pri^t. Tne firns ^ay be fald as what if mentioned
r&ht'^ to >he printed paragraphs b, D^&^r Yeung.
T^is being the case, nad when we ceafider that
cur c^ ^ita ien is alr^aly firmed, bafinef. for along
ti st tranfalsd within this date by the authority
thereof, and the nroffity this people are under even
at prefer, by encroachments of the es^f, to con
tinea the £ze cife &f sash wikurity : It is therefore
exraedly recsmmanded and reafenably hoped, that e
vary rational inhabitant of ^hii Sate will cheerfully
and readily, raft ftssdily pu fun the great end for
which a genera: ceaven ion has far fa many years
b^ea fucc^fifully attended. The ri%ht cerapanias of
r&A roe ordered to be r^ifed within this state far its ira
media:# define# it is h^pad will meet due encourage,
nmt end be immediately completed, as ferae are al
ready dried.
Extra& from the mien?#?,
IRA ALLEN, SecVy.
In CONVENTION, State 6 f Vermont.
WtiidJor, ^b July, 1777.
PUBLIC notice is hereby givea, that agres^Ne to
« ..f,k i^ for the parpofe ts effiab ifhiug a
LOAN OFFiCE witrin this date, the said ffi eis
acc rdieg.y aftub Ihsd in th, town of B^ningt^n,
near tie rawing h^G ; waere these pa fan who are
difp,fjd w l^an ^B, u^am,anting to T o Pounds
gr aver, m , receive fauiy in behalf «f th* S v.e,
payable in one er m^ ^m after date, ar fix er cent
i^e^ per a^mra. . Co% 4*%t ettuß^amce „v', by
IRA ALLEN Tufo effi^Office.
h Council if Safety ^T te if Vermont.
Bex^% 0* ^fy 28 1777.
WHEREAS the ih ^1 %u> #f ^aaer^h -utterly
: ^rt of this &a<e have b*en neceffiia.ed to
ra^fl thei r families by tXe c^creachraerts of the eno
m,; t^ f^ea are ^ovrd te the fates of the M^ffa
chn'^t % Ba, end Conße&icnt.
Tmf 4 2>? 'heiefjre te aarneftly request fach men to
retire and assist in defying this end & United Suites
of America, f^m the ravng,ssf the enemy, as it will
be to t^i< ^o^9, and much to their pr- fit; as we
hive an^entic wcc'uata tm raomeet arrived, that the
earthy have Evacuated Calletom, fir fear es devafta.
ti^n b, ur tro#,s that were ^arherißg to pay them a
siSt; f' which -^afon iris 'iksly ra^ft @r all the crops
may be fiv?d, ifihe ie^ebitaßts return seen.
By ordzr of Council,
IRA ALIEN S~ v .
iri ILA D E LTHTA- "
I CONGRESS, July 29, 1777.
][) ESOLVED, That an inquiry be made
into the reasons of rhe evacuation of
'1 .cunderoga arid Mount Independence, and
into the conduct cf the general offi ers who
were in the Northern department at the
rme of the evacuation.
That a committee be appointed to digest
and report the mode of conducing the
enquiry.
%^ 3°. Refolded, that major general
St. Clair, who commanded at Ticonderoga
and Mount Independence, forthwith repair
to head -quarters.
Zlague 1. Resolved, That major general
Schuyler be direded to repair to head
quarters.
That general Washington be directed to
order such general officer as he (hall think
proper, immediately to repair to the Nor
thern department, to relieve major general
Schuyler in his command there.
That brigadier Poor, brigadier Patter
son, and brigadier Roche de Fermoy be di
reded to repair to head-quarters.
August 3. Resolved, That General Wash
ington be directed to order the general whom
he (hall judge proper, to relieve general
Schuyler in his command, to repair with all
possible expedition to the Northern depart
ment, giving him directions what number
of the militia to call in from the dates of
New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Con
necticut, New-York, New-Jersey and Penn
sylvania.
That notice be immediately lent to the
executive powers of the said dates, and that
they be earnestly requested to get the mili
tia in those parts of their refpeCtive States
most contiguous to the Northern depart
ment, ready to march at a moment's warn
ing, and to fend, with all possible expediti
on, such parts of them as the general com
manding in the Northern department shall
require, to serve till th# 15th of November,
if not sooner relieved by Contirental troops,
or dismissed by the commanding officer of
the department, and be entitled to Conti
nental pay and rations.
That the commanding officer in the Nor
thern department have difere'ionary power
to make requisitions on the dates aforefaid,
from time to time, for such additional num
bers of the milita to serve in that depart
ment as ne fhalijudge necessary for the pub
lic service.
Whereas ir is represented to Congress that
general Washington is of opinion that the
immediate recal of all the brigadiers from
the Northern department may be productive
of inconvenience to the public fervce,
Resolved, That the order of Congress of
the firft day of this month, refptCbng the
said brigadiers, be fufp&ded until general
Washington shall judge it may be carried in
to effect with fate y.
Extracts from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
A leter from Benjamin Fraklin a *d Silas Daaae,
acquires, to lord Surmant, the English amb^dor
at Paris.
My l:rd, Paris. April 2d, 1777.
W" *' our "veHhe honor of writing foat time
li^ce tn your lordship, on the fubjea of exchang
ing piif^erib You did &ot erdefeend to give us
any answer, and therefore we expea none to this.
We however take the liberty of finding you copies of
certain depositions, which we shall tranfrait to Con
prefs, whereby it will be known to your court that the
United States are not unacquainted with t^e barbar
ous treatment their people reci e when they have the
mi fortune of being your prisoners here in Europe;
and that if your concha toward, us is not altered, it
is not unlikely that ferere reprisals may be thought
juftifiable, from the necessity of putting some check to
such abominable predicts.
For the lake ofluxamt, it is to be wished that men
would endeavour to alleviate, as much as possible, the
unavoidable miseries attending a state of war, It has
been said, that among ths cirilifad nations of Europe
the aacient horrors of ihat state are much diminished ;
but the compel rifig 0 men by chains, stripes and famine
to tight against their friends and relations, is a new
mode of barbarity which ycur nation alone has the
honor of inventing; and the finding American pri
lonery of war to Africa and Asia, remote ficin all pro
bability of exchange, and where they can scarce hope
ever to hear from their families, even if the unwhole
fome^fi of the climate does not put a speedy end to
their lives, is a manner of treating captives that you
c n juftif, by no other precedent or custom except that
of the back fajages of Guinea. We are your lord
flip's most obedient humble Servants,
B. FRANKLIN, S. DEANE.
Lord vifeount STORMONT.
To the above letter the following insolent reply was
made :
•' The Wage amb^g^tf rectos to for, ft,„ r &h,
&%:e,t W^ th, era; /0 est ^c,"
The DEPOSITION of Frii^ret Downer,
taken in the Yank<*privateer, has fellow :
Tba^fur he waimade prrfoeer by captains Rufi
"°'g e ' who tock advrntare if the generevs con
dud of Capt. Johafo ß of the YAnks # to them his pi
foners, and of the confidence he placed in th^wv in
consequence of that conduct and their tffurence#, he
and his countrymen were closely confined, ytt sffund
that on thrir arrival in port they Should be set at iibe^
ty, and these affarances were repeated iiihs most fj.
lemn manner ; infte^d of which, on their approach to
land, they were, in the hot weather of August, Shut up
in a Small cabin, the windows of which were f, jk<g
down and Ao air admitted, imfomuch that they 'wc^
all ia danger of faffbeation from the excessive heat.
Three or four days after their arrival in the river
Ithey „ie relieved from this situation in the
miaale of the night, harried on board a te^r end
feat down to Shemicfs, where the deponent was put
into the Ardent; and there falling sick cf a violent
fever, in cmfequMce cf such treatment, and fopuifh.
'^ c"" '™"" u '° r sometime, he was removed,
sick, to the Mere ; and, notwithstanding repeated
petitions to be fuffired to be fint to prrfo^ on fliore,
detained until having the eppemree cf &mor
tincation in his kp, he was sent to Hsfler haft i^l,
waeuce, after recovering his health, he had th#
fortune to make his escape. While on boa,d
theft Ships and in the hofpihls, he was informed and
believes that many of his countrymen after experi
encing even worse treatment than he, were feat til
East Indies, and- many of those taken at
were fat to tha crafts of Africa, as fcldiers.
The DEPOSITION of Capt. Seth Clark, of New
bury Port in the &ate of Maffschuetts Bay, in Ameri
ca, is as follows :
That on his return from Crpe Nichola Mole to
Newbury Part, he was taken on the faventeerth day
of September loft by an armed Schooner in hi 3 Britan
nic mfrft/s Service, — Cq^, Esq ; cemrnnder,
and carried down to Jamaica ; on his arrival at which
piece, he w^s fe^t on board the Squirrel, another
armed v^fi^l —— Douglass, Esq; commander, where,
although master and half ownar erf the v^ffriin which
he was taken, he was ai a common sailor before the
inaft, and in that situation failed far England in the
month of November ; the 10th of which month they
took z fcheoner from Pro^a Pe to. Charleftown, South
Carolina, to which place She belonged ; when the owner
an d the raafter, Mr, Bea% were brought
on b.;ard, on the letter's denying he had any Ship
payers, Capt. Douglas^ ordered him to be Shipped,
tied up. and whipped withe wirecat of nine tails that
drew blood at every Broke, and then, on his faying
that he had thrown his papers overboard he was un
tied, and ordered to his duty as common sailor, with
no place for himfclf or people to lay on but deck,.
On their arrival at Spiihead, the deponent %, ,e.
moved o the Monarch, and there erdmd to so w% „
°f, m ^ =«s, and an his refuting, on account cf in.
ability, to do it. he was threatn^d by the Lieu enrat,
a Mr. Stone, that if he spake one ward to the con
tray, ke mould be brought to the gangway, and
there favrely flogged:
% Af^ thh he was again removed, and put on board
the B slur, where he remiained rill the ioh cf Fib
er,. On board this ihip, the deponent law Afri
can prrf^am, who were defolj cosed a^d irQ, <vit&
%, ur mm alfo^ce to fa. These prisoners and o
thers informed this deponent thst a number cf Ame
rican prisoners had been taken out of this Ship and sent
to the East-Indies and the coast of Africa, which, he
was &d, would have been his fate had he arrived
sooner.
This deponent farther faith, that in H^flar hafpi
tal, to which place on account of ficketfs ha was re
raevs^ fram th# B^fleer, he fa# a captain Chafe, of
Providence, Na# England, who told him that he
b^en taken ia a flaop %fwhich he was half owner
&zd master, on his paffa^e from. Providence to Svnth-
Carolina, by at Engl ih triafport, and tn nd over
to a Blip nf war, where Jha was confined in ireas thir
w&£kr, ixfnltod, bsat and abated by the petty
efficers and common sailors, and, on being leloefed
from irons, was ordered to do duty as a fotemaft z^n
until his arrival in England, when being dangein&fl,
nl ha was fiat to said h^fpital.
Paris, March 30, 1777.
Publifad by Oraer of Cnsgref,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secrete:,,.
FISH-KILL, Aug. 14.
Extras of a letter from Albany, Aug. If.
" l.bave the pleasure to communicate to you are
agreeable piece of intelligence : La& V/ednefday
about 9 o'clock an engagement ensued between a
part of the miliua of Tryon county, under the
command of Gen. Herkemer, and a party of Sa- #
vages, tories and regulars, about balf way be
tween Erijkie and Fort Stanwix. It lasted till
3 o clock in tie afternoon, when the enemy tbCi
proper to retire, leaving General Herkimer mas
ter of the field; unluckily however .the General
and feme valuable officers got wounded ana killed
in the beginning. I bis however did in no ways
intimidate the ardor of the men ; and the Gene
ral, altho be baa two wounds, did, not leave the
field till the afiion was over ; he seated bimJelf
aown on a log, with bis sword drawn animating
bis men. Ibe enemy loft on this occafen feme of
their clief men ; fab ^ ffeph Brardt, IFF:-