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From WilUiaJin Mackean to Silas Deane, Paris. 

 1777. November 15. London. 



Taken prisoner on the sloop " Catharine," bound from Bordeaux to 

 Boston; brought to Portsmouth and kept there thirteen weeks upon 

 suspicion; received his discharge, but is destitute; desires Franklin to 

 assist him to return home; refers him to the bearer, M. Millin de 

 la Brosse, w^ho w?& one of his fellow sufferers. A. L. S. 2 p. 



VII, no. 



By The Continental Congress. 1777. November 17. 



Resolution giving commissions to Chevalier [Louis Le Begue] Du- 

 portail, and Messieurs de Laumoy, [Deshays] De la Radiere and [Jean 

 Baptiste de] Gouvion. D. i p. LXXV, 32b. 



Printed in the Journals of Congress, Philadelphia [1778], III, 513. 



From [Gen.] J[ohn] Burgoyne to General [William] Heath. 

 1777. November 20. Cambridge. 



Received a paper dated Headquarters, Boston, November 20, pur- 

 porting to be founded upon the express from the Congress, which he 

 returns as inadmissible because it extends to matters in which the Con- 

 gress has no right to interfere. Before any lists are granted he must 

 be assured of the purpose for which they are intended and the word 

 order must neither be mentioned or implied. D. S. i p. (Copy.) 



XLVII, 91. 



From [Gen.] ■W[illiam] Heath to General [John] Burgoyne. 

 1777. November 21. Headquarters, Boston. 



Informs him that the Continental Congress has a right in matters 

 of the Convention. Wants to ascertain the number of officers and men 

 comprehended in the Convention that in case any of them, contrary 

 to their faith, should again bear arms against the Colonies in the present 

 war they may be convicted of the offence. The other list necessary for 

 the Quartermasters and Commissaries. Hopes they will be sent for 

 the purposes mentioned without delay. L. S. 2 p. (Copy.) 



XLVII, 92. 



From [Gen.] J[ohn] Burgoyne to General [William] Heath. 

 1777. November 23. Cambridge. 



Insists that Congress, as the executive power of the State, has no 

 right to issue an order to persons not their subjects, on a matter no way 



