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recompense of tlie eminent services he had rendered him, or 

 rather to cancel all obligations due to your memoralist on that 

 score, sent a party of soldiers to tear y^' mem^- away from his 

 property, dignifying him with an ojQicer for their commander, 

 whose rank was so high as a sergeant, with private orders not to 

 suffer him to remove any part of his property, By which means 

 besides 28 dwelling houses, and above 40 other houses, two grist, 

 and two mills, all our gardens, orchard fences, &:c., &:c., now left 

 and exposed to the vindictive fury of ministerial vengeance, y 

 mem^ is for the present divested of other property to the amount 

 of £ ,* as per the annexed ac^^ which he most humbly im- 

 plores your hon'"" to have reimbursed in such manner, as in your 

 wisdom and justice shall seem right. Gen. Arnold is your ser- 

 vant ; all the power and authority he has, is derived from you, 

 and that has enabled him to commit the acts of tyranny and out- 

 rage upon y^ mem*^ and many others, whose complaints have 

 been laid before you. It is not in mine, but it is in your power to 

 bring him to justice. Bursting with pride and intoxicated with 

 power to wh^^i he -ever ought to have been a stranger, but wIf^ he 

 has had art enough to obtain from you, he tyrannizes where he 

 can. If temerity, if raslmess impudence and error can recom- 

 mend him to you, he is allowed to be amply supplied with these 

 qualities and m ,ny people think they ought to recohamend him 

 in a peculiar manner to L'^ North, who in gratitude, for his having 

 done more injury to the American cause, than all the ministerial 

 troops, have had the power of doing, ought to reward him 

 with a generous pension — He used his utmost endeavors to pre- 

 vent y mem^'^ from returning to his place to preserve and remove 

 to Ticonderoga his crops and other property, and when passing 

 yr mem^^ settlement with the fleet, brought them to anchor just 

 opposite to it ; suffering the mo^t disorderly the most licentious 

 fellows on shore, where in a few hours times they carried off or 

 destroyed of my property to near the amount ii besides the 

 outrages committed on our homes. I complain not, that by the 

 breaking up of my settlement I am divested of an annual income 

 of more than a thousand pounds; this is a misfortune, a calamity 



*In another document verified by his oath, Mr. Gilliland exhibits a schedule, in which the 

 aggregate of his various losses from the causes is estimated at £3,943 15 10. This I infer 

 from collateral circumstances was sterling currency. 



