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five hundred dollars to any person that would take your mem'* 

 & carry him prisoner to Canada ; that several attempts were made 

 from time to time to accomplish this without effect j sundry par- 

 ties having been obstructed, & the only party who got the lenght, 

 having been made prisoners by your mem' &. sent bound to Gen 

 Schuyler, tho well provided with a blunderbuss & six other fire 

 arms. — they were headed by Sheriff White of Tryon county, con- 

 sisted of 4 Tories & 3 Savages & were to join the enemy at S» 

 Johns, where White was to have raised a company to join Coll 

 McLeans emigrants. That your mem'' has reason to think that he 

 was the first person who laid a plan for & determined upon seiz- 

 ing Ticonderoga, C Point and the Kings armed vessel, & therewith 

 the entire command of Lakes George k Champlain. Tiiat by 

 means of your mem' an unhappy dispute, w^ subsisted between 

 M"" Allen and M^ Arnold (the then rival Headsof our hand full of 

 people on L Champlain) was composed. In consequence of w^^ 

 your mem'^ (besides several other matters) took the Liberty of re- 

 commending to your Honors, the embodying the Green Mountain 

 boys. Coll Allen delivered the letter — 



That your mem'' property to the amount of several hundred 

 pounds, is stopped by the ministerial troops in Canada, because 

 of his known attachment to the glorious cause of American inde- 

 pendence, now at stake. That your mem'" having entertained 

 good opinion of Mr. Arnold, did his utmost endeavors, with a 

 committee from the congress of Mass., to have him continued in 

 the command at C Point ; and after he was turned out of the ser- 

 vice, your mem''^ was the means of procuring credentials for 

 his being reinstated, by furnishing liini with tlie unanimous voice of 

 the civil and military in the northern department in his favor, by 

 an address which was drawn up by your rnen'^^ and presented to 

 him for that purpose ; w'ch was the cliief friend he had to introduce 

 him to the t'av'r of the prov'l Congress and of Gen. Washington 

 when it was expected by muny, that he would have met quite a 

 different reception. 



That, by means of your mem''' our army were supjdied with 

 as many water criift as transported several hundred men from C. 

 Point to Canada, whither he conducted Gen. Montgomerey safe, 



