95. Capt. Heth to Col. Lamb.

96. Major Shaw, Memoirs by Josiah Quincy, p. 41.

97. De Chastellux, vol. i. p. 266.

98. Gates’s Papers, N. Y. Hist. Lib.

99. Life of Lord Stirling, by W. A. Duer, p. 182.

100. Life of Talbot, by Henry T. Tuckerman, p. 31.

101. Governor Clinton and myself have been down to view the forts, and are both of opinion that a boom, thrown across at Fort Constitution, and a battery on each side of the river, would answer a much better purpose than at Fort Montgomery, as the garrison would be reinforced by militia with more expedition, and the ground much more definable (defendable?).—Putnam to Washington, 7th Nov. 1777.—Sparks’ Cor. of the Rev. ii. 30.

102. Gates’s Papers, N. Y. Hist. Soc. Lib.

103. Reed to Gates. Gates’s Papers.

104. Reed to President Wharton.

105. Life and Cor. of Reed, vol. i. p. 341.

106. Washington’s Writings. Sparks, vol. v. p. 171.

107. Memoirs of Lafayette, vol. i. p. 122.

108. Gates’s Papers, N. Y. Hist. Soc. Lib.

109. Life and Cor. of Reed, vol. i. p. 351.

110. Letter of Elias Boudinot, Commissary of Prisoners, to President Wharton .—Life and Cor. of J. Reed, vol. i. p. 351.

111. Gordon’s Hist. Am. War, vol. ii. p. 279.

112. Gates’s Papers, N. Y. Hist. Lib.

113. Sparks. Washington’s Writings, vol. v. p. 498.

114. Sparks. Washington’s Writings, vol. v. p. 493.

115. Idem, vol. v. p. 497.

116. Sparks’ Cor. Am. Rev. vol. ii. p. 74.

117. At that time an aide-de-camp of Gates.

118. Letter to Gen. Henry Lee, Virginia.—Sparks’ Writings of Washington, vol. v. 378.

119. Letter to Landon Carter. Idem. p. 391.

120. The introduction to the letters states them to have been transmitted to England by an officer serving in Delancey’s corps of loyalists, who gives the following account of the way he came by them:—Among the prisoners at Fort Lee, I espied a mulatto fellow, whom I thought I recollected, and who confirmed my conjectures by gazing very earnestly at me. I asked him if he knew me. At first, he was unwilling to own it; but when he was about to be carried of, thinking, I suppose, that I might perhaps be of some service to him, he came and told me that he was Billy, and the old servant of General Washington. He had been left there on account of an indisposition which prevented his attending his master. I asked him a great many questions, as you may suppose; but found very little satisfaction in his answers. At last, however, he told me that he had a small portmanteau of his master’s, of which, when he found that he must be put into confinement, he entreated my care. It contained only a few stockings and shirts; and I could see nothing worth my care, except an almanack, in which he had kept a sort of a journal, or diary of his proceedings since his first coming to New York; there were also two letters from his lady, one from Mr. Custis, and some pretty long ones from a Mr. Lund Washington. And in the same bundle with them, the first draughts, or foul copies of answers to them. I read these with avidity; and being highly entertained with them, have shown them to several of my friends, who all agree with me, that he is a very different character from what they had supposed him.

In commenting on the above, Washington observed that his mulatto man Billy, had never been one moment in the power of the enemy, and that no part of his baggage nor any of his attendants were captured during the whole course of the war.—Letter to Timothy Pickering, Sparks, ix. 149.

121. Sparks’ Writings of Washington, vol. v. p. 300.

122. Wilkinson’s Memoirs, vol i. p. 409.

123. Sparks’ Writings of Washington. Vol. v. Appendix—where there is a series of documents respecting the Conway Cabal.

124. Names of the committee—General Reed, Nathaniel Folsom, Francis Dana, Charles Carroll, and Gouverneur Morris.

125. Stedman.

126. Bryan Fairfax continued to reside in Virginia until his death, which happened in 1802, at seventy-five years of age. He became proprietor of Belvoir and heir to the family title, but the latter he never assumed. During the latter years of his life he was a clergyman of the Episcopal church.

127. Washington to the President of Cong. Sparks. v. 347.

128. On one occasion having exhausted all his German and French oaths, he vociferated to his aide-de-camp, Major Walker, “Vien mon ami Walker—vien mon bon ami. Sacra— G— dam de gaucherie of dese badauts—je ne puis plus—I can curse dem no more.”—Carden, Anecdotes of the Am. War, p. 341.

129. Correspondence of the Revolution, vol. ii. p. 274.

130. Washington to Greene.—Writings of Washington, vol. vii. p. 152.

131. Wilkinson’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 852.

132. Stedman.

133. In the Gazette of that date the Conciliatory Bills were published by order of Congress; as an instance of their reception by the public, we may mention that in Rhode Island the populace burned them under the gallows.

134. Stedman, vol. i. p. 384.

135. 19 Parliamentary Hist. 1338.

136. Force’s Am. Archives, vol. 1. 962.

137. MS. letter of Hamilton to Elias Boudinot.

138. Evidence of Dr. McHenry on the Court-Martial.

139. Lossing’s Field Book of the Revolution, ii. 363.

140. Letter to Joseph Reed. Sparks. Biog. of Lee, p. 174.

141. Letter to Dr. Rush. Sparks. Biog. of Lee.

142. Washington to Reed. Sparks, vol. vi. 133.

143. Brit. Ann. Register for 1778 p. 229.

144. Letter of the count.

145. Letter of Lafayette to Washington. Memoirs, T. i. p. 194.

146. Gentleman’s Magazine for 1778, p. 545.

147. Ann. Register, 1778, p. 215.

148. It is a popular tradition, that when Washington proposed to Wayne the storming of Stony Point, the reply was, “General, I’ll storm h—ll if you will only plan it.”

149. Stedman, vol. i. p. 145.