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thirty;* John Howard also joined the army at Skenesborough and soon 

 after assisted in collecting and bringing in a hundred recruits, f Hugh 

 Munro enlisted at the same place, was at once appointed to a captaincy 

 in Jessup's corps, and gathered a number of men who became the 

 nucleus of a batteau company that was formed after the army reached 

 Ft. Edward ; + other accessions at the two encampments last named were 

 the result of the activity of Francis Pfister and Robert Leake, who 

 sent in, according to the latter's statement, eighty men, with a return 

 of the number they had raised;* William and Thomas Fraser, of Tryon 

 County, enlisted at Ft. Edward after escaping from Albany, where, 

 with one hundred recruits they were conducting to Canada, they had 

 been imprisoned; Captain Daniel Mc Alpin with sixty "American 

 Volunteers," raised at the instance of Sir William Howe, also enlisted 

 at Ft. Edward;* Gershom French conducted ninety-four men to the 

 army at Saratoga, after arming them by force at the expense of the 

 Americans;" Alexander Crukshank and six others escaped from 

 Esopus jail in Ulster County, New York, to Burgoyne's camp at Sara- 

 toga, Crukshank's family coming in soon after;'' Peter VanAlstine, of 

 Kinderhook, Albany County, added thirty men to Burgoyne's forces, 

 but where is not stated; neither is it stated where a party of the Mo- 

 hawks joined Burgoyne, but the Rev. John Stuart, missionary to this 

 tribe, declares that he sent his congregation of Indians to support the 

 King's troops, probably the group of 40 o: 50 i'edmen led in by Joseph 

 Clement of Tyron County.* 



Under these circumstances Burgoyne should have had no diffi- 

 culty in forming the extra battalions for which he had blank com- 

 missions, or in filling the ranks of those already under his command. 

 He had sent emissaries into the colonies to secure Tory recruits before 

 he started down Lake Champlain; prominent men who joined him 

 were at once sent back with "beating orders" to bring in such parties 

 as they could raise, and, with no abatement of zeal in this direction, 

 one of his objects in despatching Baum's expedition to the Connecticut 

 River on August 14, was to complete Peter's regiment of provincials, 

 which formed part of Baum's forces.' Before Burgoyne's advance 

 guard had passed Crown Point, Peters and his corps had been joined 

 by thirty-three men (June 25); on the fourteenth of the following 



♦Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. I., 398. 



tPIaldimand Papers, B. 214, p. 23.5. 



jlbid., pp. 210-215. 



*Ibid., p. 41. 



•Ibid., B. 1G7, p. 157. 



•Ibid., B. 161, pp. 1-3. 



"Ibid., B. 214, p. 96. 



•Ibid., B. 215, p. 96; Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. II., 965. 



" Stone, Burgoyne's Campaign, ap. 278. 



