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The burials from the prison-ships, were thus conducted : A small hole was dug at the foot of the hill, the bodies cast in, and covered by shovelling sand down the hill upon them. Many were buried in a ravine of the hill ; some on the farm. The whole shore from Rennie's Point to Mr. Remsen's dooryard was a place of graves, as was the slope of the hill near the house, (dug down by Mr. Jack- son, when he got the bones for the procession) and the shore from Mr. R.'s barn along the Mill-pond, to Rapalje's farm, and the sandy island between the flood-gates and the mill-dam, while a few were buried on the east shore of the Wallebocht. More than half the dead buried outside the Mill-pond (see map) were washed out by the waves at high tide, during N. E. winds. Their bones lay ex- posed along the beach (drying and bleaching in the sun, and whiten- ing the shore) till reached by the violence of a succeeding storm, when as the agitated waters receded, the bones were washed with them into the deep. The prisoners in the Jersey had obtained a crowbar which was kept concealed in the berth of some trusty officer, and used to break off port-gratings in stormy nights. A number who were good swimmers thus escaped. Cap. Doughty, had charge of this bar while a prisoner, and escaped by this means.
Gen. Johnson.
The long detention of prisoners on board the prison-ships must in part at least be attributed to the Americans themselves. Our
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privateers captured many British seamen, and should have retained them to exchange for our countrymen in captivity, but when willing to enlist, as was generally the case, they were received on board our ships : and even those brought in port were suffered to go at large, on account of the expense of maintaining them till they could be ex- changed.
British account of the mortality of Prisoners.
P. Dobbyn, master of a transport, thus writes from N. York, Jan. 15, "77 ; We had 4 or 500 prisoners on board our ships, but they had such bad distempers, that each ship buried 10 or 12 a day. Another writer (Jan. 14, "77,) says, the Churches are full of Ame- rican prisoners, who died so fast, that 25 or 30 are buried at a time, in N. Y. city. Howe gave all who could walk their liberty, after taking their oath, not to take up arms against His Majesty.
Mid. (London) Journal.
The prisoners taken in the hot month of August, 1776, had on only the lightest summer clothing, and this was all they had to keep off the chill of a December night! The dysentery had also prevailed among them, to which now was added the small-pox and other pri- son diseases.
One Schureman and Lawrence taken at N. Brunswick, once broke out of the Sugar House. They were fed by Philip Kissick, and bribing the keeper for the privilege of the yard, they gave the guard liquor drugged with laudanum. They dug through a wall and escaped-found a fishing-boat in the upper part of the city, paddled over the river, and went to Morristown.
Eager's Hist. of Orange Co., p. 155.
Jos. Hedden, of Newark, an ardent Whig, had eluded the vigil- ance of the refugees for some time, but being afflicted with the gout he returned to his family. He was taken from his bed in the month of January, 1780, and on one of the coldest nights ever known, was forced to walk 10 miles without shoes or stockings (his feet wrapped in flannel on account of his disorder) over the snow and ice, with- out any garment except a bed blanket on his shoulders, to the Sugar House, in N. Y., where he remained till the lamp of life was ex- tinguished. He was not allowed to accept of another blanket of- fered him at the Ferry.
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For a further account of the discipline, daily routine of prison · life, curious adventures, escapes, anecdotes, &c., the reader is re- ferred to Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship, by Capt. Thos. Dring, PROVIDENCE, R. I., 1829 .- The Old Jersey Captive, by Thos. Andros, BOSTON, 1833 .- Life of Ebenezer Fox, of Roxbury, BOSTON, 1838 .- Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity, BURLING- TON, VT., 1846 .- The Interment of the remains of 11,500 American prisoners at the Wallebocht, NEW-YORK, 1808; and Freneau's Poem on the Prison Ship.
APPENDIX.
Forms of orders, &c., issued in the Revolution.
Jamaica, 29, Aug., 1776.
Permit Isaac Bennet to pass and repass without molestation. WILL. ERSKINE, Brig. Gen.
Pursuant to His Excellency Sir WM. HOWE's Proclamation of the 17th July, 1777 ; Permission is hereby given to Aaron Van Nostrand, to carry to Jamaica across the Ferry one bush. salt. He having com- plied with the directions contained in the above-mentioned Procla- mation.
New- York, Superintendent's Office, Sep. 29th, 1777. JOHN NUGENT, Dep. Superinten't.
To the Officers attending.
Office of Police, Jamaica, Ap. 18, 1781.
The highways in Kings and Queens Cos. requiring immediate re- pairs, the several overseers are directed to set about this work necessary without delay, and by laying fascines and covering them with earth, to render the sloughs passable the ensuing season.
JAS. CREIGHTON, Clerk. Office of Police, 16th Aug., 1781.
Aaron Van Nostrandt is directed forthwith to warn the inhabitants of Jamaica, in the district that usually work on the highway leading to Flushing, and set them to work on said highway, and put it into good order. Those who refuse to work after being properly warned, and not making a sufficient excuse, he is to fine 8s. for each day's neglect, agreeably to the former order of this office.
DAVID COLDEN, Ass. Sup't.
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Office of Police, Jamaica, Oct. 16, 1782.
Aaron Van Nostrandt, Marshal of this office, is appointed inspector of the weight and quality of bread in this town, with directions to visit the several bake-houses once a week, for the purpose of examining the bread.
GEO. D. LUDLOW, Sup't.
South Hempstead, Queens Co. These are to certify that in the year 1776, before the troops landed on L. I., a certain Col. Benj. Birdsall and Col. - Cornell came to Jos. Pettet's, and took away one pair of oxen and a five year old steer.
SAM'L PETTET, Executor.
Hempstead, Nov. 26, 1776. To Mr. Ashley ; Sir :- Please to pay the bearer, Mr. Sam'l Pettet, the money due for my wagon and horses for 38 days in His Majesty's service, and his receipt shall be your dis- charge in full from your humble servant.
CHRISTIAN SNEDECOR.
Hempstead, Nov. 20, 1776. SIR :- Be pleased to pay the bearer, Sam'l Pettet, the money due for my wagon and horses for 43 days in His Majesty's service, and his receipt shall be your discharge in full from your friend.
FLOWER HULST.
Hempstead, Jan. 4, 1777. Permit the bearer hereof, Mr. Sam'l Pet- tet, jr., to pass without hindrance to N. Y. Island, and from thence to N. Jersey, or until he find his wagon and horses, now in His Majesty's service-said Samuel has always acted as a friend to government.
S. CLOWES, a Justice of the Peace of Queens Co.
Feb. 2, 1780. It is Col. Hamilton's positive orders, that I send Benj. Rainer and his son Ezekiel, before him, to answer to the com- plaint laid against them. I do hereby command Sergeant Elijah Spragg to take both of them, and go to Col. Hamilton's with them, and to press their sled and horses to carry himself and them, and desire Col. Hamil- ton to let the Sergeant know who shall pay him for his trouble.
By order of the Colonel. BENJ. HEWLETT, Capt. Q. Co. Militia.
To Mr. Sam'l Pettet : It is Col. Hamilton's orders, that the inhabi- tants fetch the provisions for the Segoond [?] officers. Several persons are appointed to go. It fell to your brother Michael's turn to go to-
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morrow morning, but as he is unwell, you must take his turn of duty and he shall take yours. You must go to the widow Mott's to take the things to bring it in, and there will be some person to go with you. Saturday morning, April 6, you must go.
BENJ. HEWLETT, Capt.
June 8, 1782. Permit the bearer hereof, Silas Pettet, of Hempstead, to pass to N. Y. and return, by order of
BENJ. HEWLETT, Capt. Q. Co. Militia.
Extracts from a MS. book of Peter Onderdonk, of Cow Neck, Queens County.
Sep. 14, '76. My wagon and horses entered the King's service.
Nov. 21. My son Andrew returned sick from the camp-left my wagon and horses.
Oct. 26. Jona. Dix pressed a mare from me to go in His Majesty's service.
April 12, '79. Be it remembered that, April 12, '79, were billeted upon me, 18 Frenchmen, (Canadians ?) in order to cut all the wood be- longing to Wm. Cornell and Richard Sands.
When Tyranny holds up its head, Then glorious liberty is fled.
May 14. The above Frenchmen went away, but returned again in parties for a week afterwards, and then quit, not cutting Richard Sands's woods.
Dec. 23. '79. Jos. Thorne's order to bring the Hessian guard wood, 14th of a cord, 2 sled-loads.
July 30,'80. Was cut and carted by order of Robt. Sutton, 12 loads of wood, out of my woods, without asking me liberty.
Sep. 24,'81. Hope Mills, Dr. to two loads of hay and one pair wagon-sides. [Impressed ?- Ed ]
Nov. 13,'82. Capt. Westerhagen came here with his company to quarters, (a German hireling,) and with violence drove my sick daughter Elizabeth and Jannetie Rapalje out of their sick beds. Ingratitude ! He quit his quarters here Jan. 7, '83-a German hireling !
Jan. 17, '83. Ensign Wagner came here to quarter with his guard ; left, Feb. 28-a hireling !
Edward Thorne, Dr. (on account of the damage sustained by his neglect of furnishing the troops with wood, quartered at Wm. Dodge's) to cutting 40 walnut saplings and upwards of 100 chestnut rails, £20.
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The above damage I received from the troops of Capt. De Wes- terhagen and Ensign Wagner, done in 11 weeks; some of the wood was carried to Wm. Salts's by his soldiers. This is besides the wood burnt at my house by Capt. Westerhagen, 80 loads, value, £60.
Note to Sec. 218.
May 18, '77. Representatives in Convention from Kings Co. were Henry Williams and Wm. Boerum: from Suffolk, Burnet Miller, David Gelston, Ezra L'Hommedieu, Thos. Tredwell and Thos. Wicks.
Note to Sec. 689.
Nath'l Williams, of Huntington, swore July 4, '79, that he had been twice robbed by the rebels of £450 money, and £70 in goods ; and had had no correspondence with his son and two daughters, who live with the rebels. Jonas Rogers (also accused of smuggling goods to Conn't) swore he had no intercourse with his son, who is said to have come plundering on L. I. Gaine, July 12.
Rev. Abm. Keteltas-Note to Sec. 3.
At the outbreak of the revolution, Mr. K. was a leading Whig at Jamaica. In Gaine's paper of Feb. 13, 1775, he is charged with threatening to shoulder his musket before he would pay the tax on tea. In the next paper appears an able vindication of his conduct. He was chosen deputy to the Provincial Congress, and at the abandonment of the Island, he fled to the Main, leaving three houses in N. Y. city, and a large farm with slaves, cattle, and a furnished house on it. He had 100 acres of woodland cut off. His house was occupied by Gen. Skin- ner and other Tories, and much injured. He lived at Norwalk, Dan- bury, and other parts of New England, and at the peace returned home much reduced. See Trumbull papers, vol. 18, 117 .- Of his sermons the following have been printed. The Religious Soldier, preached at Elizabethtown, to the regular officers and soldiers going to the Cana- dian war, March 8, 1759. A Charity Sermon preached in the French Protestant Church, N. Y., (of which he was pastor), Dec. 27, 1773 ; Sermon at an evening Lecture, at Newburyport, Oct. 5, 1777, and a Sermon on Extortion, preached at Newburyport, Feb. 15, 1778.
Note to Sec. 721.
July, 1815. 12 tons of pig iron and a long 32 lb. cannon were taken up by a diving machine in Fortpond Bay, being the wreck of the Cul- loden.
L. I. Star, July 26.
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Note to Sec. 707.
John, son of Wm. Smith, of St. George's Manor, and Wm. Philips, late overseer of Wm Floyd, left L. I. with much money for Con't.
Gaine, March 30, '78.
Note to Sec. 119.
No sooner had Jost Monfort fled than Capt. Sneden and N. C. came to his residence, and were taking an inventory of stock, grain, &c., with a view to its confiscation, when his father told them the property was not Jost's but his. Thereupon they went off. Jost had three sons, Peter, Abraham, and George, in the army at Brooklyn. They had just returned home, when some British light horse rode up to the house by night. They escaped by a back door. The light horse, however, by mistake seized their brother Jacobus, who had not been in arms, and to prevent his escaping, the drunken guard made him sit up undressed all night by the fireside. He pointed a pistol at his mother, threatened to rip open the feather beds because she could not tell where her sons had fled, made her draw cider, &c .; and to terrify her still more, he presented his sword to Jacobus, and then drawing forth his pistol, in- sisted on a mock fight. After he had thus trifled the night away, early next morning he went off with his prisoner to the Hollow before Squire Van Wyck, where to his mortification he found he had caught the wrong person. At another time some soldiers piloted by Tories came to his house, and wantonly fired into the turkey-roost, took four loads of corn from his crib, jumped into the hog-pen, run their swords into two of the hogs, threw them into a wagon and carried them off to Jamaica. They also drove off two fat cattle. While the Tories were thus annoying him, Monfort used to tell them, he hoped to see the day when he should have satisfaction. " Ah," said Squire Van Wyck, " you may live in hope, but you'll die in despair."
Raising the Hulk of the Hussar-Note to Sec. 146.
In July, 1821, Mr. Palmer on board a U. S. gun-boat, had got up the rudder of the Hussar with his diving bell. In Dec. 1819, Sam'l Davis had raised 40 feet of the stern, when the vessel broke, and the fore part settled down on the rocks. Some cannon and shot were brought up with the stern, but no specie, of which she was said to have nearly $100,000 on board. In Oct., 1825, Major Bayard was em- ployed as engineer, who placed several chains under her bottom, and by the aid of screws, hoped to raise her to the surface, but failed.
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Note to Sec. 336.
Henry Allen, of Great Neck, was robbed by some persons who first called up David Allen and made him cross the creek with them, and knock in a seeming friendly way at his door. On hearing the sound of David's voice, the door was at once opened and the robbers entered.
Note to Sec. 412.
As the Rev. John Bowden rode up to a house in Smithtown, he was captured by a concealed party of whale-boatmen. Why, gentle- men, said he, what shall I do ? I am too feeble to go with you, it will kill me ! Then you can sign a parole, and we will exchange you for the Rev. Mr. Mather, said they. That I will readily do, rejoined the Parson.
Note to Sec. 368.
Tunis Bogart and Dan'l Luyster, were returning from a funeral, Sep. 2, 1776, when they were arrested by the Halls, of Lloyd's Neck, (who had also a prisoner from the Main shore) and carried to Herricks. It was late and the guard would not disturb the officers. So they were all put in a room in charge of the Halls, who were now drunk. The man from the Main slipped off. while the Halls were asleep. In the morning, Bogart and Luyster were examined and set at liberty, but they had not yet reached home before they were impressed with their wagons to cart cannon and shot from New Utrecht to Hell Gate. B. had a load in his wagon for some weeks, and finally crossed over at Hell Gate and left his load in the upper part of the city. There he saw the execution of Hale. Becoming sick, he left his wagon in care of a hired driver and returned home. His brother George was sent to take charge of the wagon, but as he was passing through Jamaica, he was betrayed by one Remsen, his fellow-traveller, and was forced to enlist in Capt. Dunbar's company, to escape imprisonment. When his father heard of his being in duress, he went to Jamaica, and procured his re- lease and sent him on to N. Y. He was present as a wagoner, at the capture of Ft. Washington, and afterwards crossed with the army into Jersey ; where Dan'l Luyster died of small-pox.
Note to Sec. 769.
'One Green, it is said, shot a whale-boatman at the head of Pat- chogue swamp, who had come over from the Main after the peace, and collected some ransom money from persons he had liberated during the war. Nothing was ever done with him.
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Note to Sec. 65.
. At 11 this evening, 250 men under Majors and Livingston marched to rout a number of Tories in the swamps of L. I., and to pick up such men as are inimical to the liberty of America.
Webb, June 23.
Note to Sec. 109.
Eagle and Penfold, Committee-men, report to Gen. Heath, at Kings- · bridge, Aug. 29, that the light horse in companies of 8 or 10, are pil- laging at Flushing. Major Bowne was seen bound in their hands.
" Their scouting parties consist of about 300 horse, and 400 foot, with Tory recruits." Livingston, Southold, Aug. 31.
Sexton's Bill -- note to Sec. 259.
Jamaica, Oct. 24, 1780.
GEN. DELANCEY,
To GRACE CHURCH, Dr.
To digging a grave for Maj. Waller,
£0 10
" Funeral Bell,
0 5
" Use of Church Pall, 0 4
" Inviting, and attending funeral, 0 16
£1 15
Sexton's bill-note to Sec. 245.
Jamaica, Sep. 12, 1779.
MRS. BREWERTON,
To GRACE CHURCH, Dr.
To Inviting, and attending Col. Brewerton,
£0 16
" Funeral Bell, - -
0 5
" Digging grave and burying corpse, 1 12
" Cleaning the Church, - -
0 12
£3 5
Note to Sec. 292.
Dover, June 23, '77. F. B., said she did not remove on account of expense, being discouraged by P. Corney. She signed the paper with- out reading it. She suffered much by the British. Her house was plundered of many valuables. They left her with many curses and threats about her rebel husband. She lost 2 pair fat oxen, 6 head fat cows, 30 store cattle, 2 pair work oxen, 2 ox carts, 2 horses, a good new wagon, 90 sheep, poultry, &c., &c , &c.
XXXVIII. 147. Ms. Jour.
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Note to Sec. 555.
Field and Staff Officers, Ist Reg. of Suffolk Co.
Wm. Floyd, Col .; Gilbert Potter, Lt. Col .; Jeffery Smith, and Jesse Brush, Majors ; Philip Roe, Adj. ; John Roe, Q. M.
Capt's. Names.
Capts.
Lts.
Ensigns.
Serg.
Corp.
Clerk.
Drum.
Fife.
Privates
Total.
Sam'l Johnson,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
102
117
Eben. Miller,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
56
71
Nathan Rose,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
98
113
Wm. Brewster,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
67
82
Philetus Smith,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
67
82
Joshua Rogers,.
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
101
114
Epenetus Conklin,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
85
99
Joel Skudder,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
51
65
John Buffet,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
38
52
Platt Vail,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
44
59
Gilbert Carll,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
41
56
Benajah Strong,
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
23
38
Dan'I Roe's
1
2
1
4
4
1
1
1
61
76
Minute Comp.
13
26
13
52
52
13
13
13
834,1024
Hempstead Petitioners against driving off Stock -- Note to Sec. 79.
Silvanus Beadle, David Batty ; Jas., Jos., John and Oliver Birdsall ; Jas. Burch, Carman Burtis, Smith Brush, Silas Carman, Jos. Carpenter, David Casseboom, Wm. and Johannes Covert ; Benj. Cromwell, Thos. Dean, St. Denton, Israel Eldert, John Ellsworth, Lawrence Fish, Luke Fleet, Zophar Hawkins, Hend'k Hendrickson ; Sam'l, Jacob, Richard and Oba. Jackson ; Gilbert, Wm. and John Jones ; Tise Lane, John Lewis, Garret Monfort, Dan'l Nostrant, Israel Oakley, V. H. Peters, Jas. Pine, Thos. Place, Sol. Poole, Henry Pageot, [?] Jas. Ryder ; Benj., John, John W., Oba., Jacob, Sam'l, Sol., Williams and Zeb. Sea- man ; Embree Shadbolt, John Simonson, Nathan Skidmore ; Gershom and Richard Smith ; Christoffel Stimeston, Jacob and Richard Totten, Benj. and Thos. Tredwell ; Jas., Cor. and Gabriel Van Cott ; Garret Van Nostrand, Henry Walters, Benj , Wm. and Jacob Wanser ; John and Zeb. Williams ; Geo. and Anthony Wright.
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Skinner's Brigade-Note to Sec. 483. 1778.
Lt. Cols .- Elisha Skinner, John Morris, Abm. Van Buskirk, Jos. Barton, Isaac Allen.
Majors-Thos. Lawrence, John Antill, John Colden, John Drum- mond, Philip Van Cortland, Dan'l Isaac Brown, Robert Tympany, Thos. Millege, John Barns, Richard Stockton.
1780. 2d Bat. 3d Bat.
1st Bat.
Col. Cortland Skinner,
Lt. Col. St. Delancey, Maj. Thos. Millege,
Isaac Allen, Abm. Van Buskirk,
Robt. Drummond, Ph. Van Cortland.
Fight in Hempstead Swamp-Note to Sec. 65.
N. Y. June 24, '76. A party of our men went to L. I. last Saturday (June 20,) to take up some Tories. They returned yesterday (Sunday) with one Downing, charged with being in the hellish plot [to rise when the British landed, seize the passes to N. Y., kill Washington, blow up the magazines, &c.]. They took 6 prisoners and put them in Jamaica Jail. The Tories made some resistance, and fired on our men in the woods ; our people returned the fire, and wounded one man mortally ; they then called for quarters. [One of Washington's guards, Thos. Hickey, was hung last Friday, June 28, being one of the plotters, in presence of 20,000 spectators. See Sparks, III. 441 .- Ed.]
Ludlow to Silliman-Note to Sec. 365.
A plundering party under Fred'k Denison, came from Greenwich to Hempstead Harbor, Saturday night, Sep. 30, '80, and plundered Chas. Doughty, a Quaker shopkeeper, at Foster's Meadow, of goods, money and apparel, equal to £1500. Oba. Valentine was one of them and a guide. They returned with their plunder to Daniel Lyons, at Coscob. The boat belonged to Skudder Valentine.
Silliman replies, Oct. 12, that he will search for the offenders, and send for Doughty to testify.
Exchange of Judge Jones-Note to Sec. 402.
Gen. Silliman says, " I left N. Y. Wednesday last, to be exchanged for Judge Jones. Thursday, 3. P. M., met Jones in the Sound near Hart I. I put back and came under the stern of the guard ship, Grand Duke, Capt. Holman, which lay between City and Hart I. Having ex-
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changed vessels, the favoring wind and tide, which carried Jones to N. Y. that evening, prevented my reaching home till next day even- ing.
Capt. George Lyman, who had some time previously robbed Col. Floyd, and had command of 3 whale-boats, lost his liberty in carrying off Judge Jones, and was put in the Sugar House.
Note to Sec. 162.
Alex. Grant, who was afterwards killed at Ft. Montgomery, took possession of B. Coe's farm, in '77. His family kept it till the peace. 'To repay him for the waste and injury the State indemnified him from Grant's estate in N. Y., and allowed him to file a declaration against Grant's heirs, as G. had a large estate in N. Y.Passed, Ap. 23, '85.
Fort on Lloyd's Neck-Note to Sec. 410.
The Fort on Lloyd's Neck is an irregular square, has a fosse 4 ft. deep and wide, nearly surrounding it; frized on every part, upright pickets 8 ft. high and 4 in. diameter, (mostly of round staddlewood) are placed in the centre of the ditch and another row of pickets without the ditch, and an abattis without the whole. A wagon passage opens into the Fort, and is not obstructed by a gate. Near the centre of the Fort is a blockhouse of 4 in. plank without loopholes. On the walls of the Fort are mounted 4 long 12 pounders and two 3 pounders, and in the Fort a brass 4 lb. field-piece. By day 2 men are in the Fort, by night 8: the rest in barracks and encamped from 100 to 300 yds. from the Fort. A picket is kept at a high bluff near the entrance of Huntington Harbor. Two miles west is a sandy beach and no guard there.
Trumbull, XV. 325.
Troops in Queens Co .- Report of Spies.
Aug. 7, '77. British have 300 men at Huntington ; at Setauket 250. They have made store-houses of the meeting-houses, and erected Forts around them. Feb. 9, '78. One regiment at Brooklyn, one (Scotch) at Flushing ; one regiment Greencoats, at Herricks ; one at Jamaica. Feb. 16,'79. 17th Dragoons (300) and Lord Cathcart's Legion (50) on L. I .; 14 companies Grenadiers (700) at Jamaica ; 1st batta- lion Hessian Chasseurs (350) at Flushing ; Ludlow's battalion (150) at Lloyd's Neck ; Simcoe's Rangers (250) on L. I. July 7, '81. Jagers removed from N. side of Hemp. Plains to Kingsbridge. Lloyd's Neck evacuated by Col. Hewlett and his party, who now lie encamped just out of the town spot of Jamaica, a little to the East. The Loyal
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Refugees, now commanded by Hubbel, amount to 200 or 300 men. The 17th horse removed from Hemp. to Success, for convenience of pasture. June, '81. Major Fitch says, regular troops on L. I. lay as far east as Jamaica, where are 300; 17th dragoons (300) in the vici- nity of Flushing ; 150 Associated Loyalists at Lloyd's Neck, who draw 270 rations, one for man, half for woman, quarter for child. No date. At Jamaica is Ludlow's regiment, 350 men ; at Flushing Fly, Arnold's corps, 200; at Fresh Meadows, 17th dragoons ; between Jamaica and Bedford are Murray's corps, 150 ; at Brooklyn, Grenadiers of 47th re- giment, and some German recruits. None of the above can help Slongum or Lloyds Neck. . Slongum mounts 2 six pounders, and is of little strength ..
Feb. 6,'82. At Jamaica 2 battalions Grenadiers, 800 men ; at Flushing, 38th and 54th regiments ; at Hempstead, 17th dragoons ; at Herricks, Hessian Jagers ; at Hallet's Cove, Royal Forresters ; at New- town, Garrison of Pensacola. July 5, '82. Lloyd's Neck, supposed to be weak, commanded by Maj. Hubbel-200 men without discipline and off their guard-subsist by trading to Con't, daily diminishing. Their protection by water is a brig, sloop, and galley. At Success Church, one or 2 miles from Herricks, is Col. Murray's horse and 2 regi- ments of Jagers and Anspach, in all 1,000 men ; 300 of which said to be horse, and all commanded by Col. Wormb. May 23, '82. The wagons and horses of the Refugee Post, at Lloyd's Neck, were sold yesterday at Vendue. Dec. 18, '82. Fitch says, Thompson's corps, the remains of the Queen's Rangers, and Tarlton's Legion (5 or 600) are at Huntington, to protect the trade with the Main. At Norwich the remains of the Anspach regiment, 150 men ; the Hessian and Anspach Jagers lay at Wheatly, Jericho, Westbury, Herricks, Northside, Cow and Great Neck, (in all 930,) under Wormb and Preuschenck ; at Hemp- stead are 4 companies of 17th dragoons ; at Jamaica, are Pinon's and Kniphausen's regiment ; at Flushing, Delancey's 3d battalion.
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