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 Relating principally to the Convention Army after its 
 Arrival in the Neighbourhood of Bofton, in the 
 Years 1777 and 1778. 
 
 Dear Sir, Philadelphia , 8 th Nov. 1777. 
 
 BY Lieutenant Vellancy, who arrived here on the 31ft of 
 Oftober with your ditpatches from Albany, I received with 
 infinite concern the particular account of your misfortune. 
 
 The lofs of your fervices with the fervices of General 
 Phillips in this country, I exceedingly regret, and ft nee : the 
 fortune of war has thrown you both out of that line, i mall 
 requeft the Admiral to fend a frigate for you, and necefiary 
 tranfports for the conveyance of the troops, as loon as they 
 can be got ready and victualled : but as there 1S h r ^ e P r0 ‘Pf” 
 of light tranfports being able to get round to Bofton at this 
 late feafon of the year, it is thought moft advifeable to fend 
 them with the frigate to Rhode Ifland, from whence you 
 will be advifed of their arrival, and I hope, on the above 
 confideration, you will get permiffion to embark from New- 
 port or fome convenient port in the found ; othenvile it will 
 be impoflible for the troops to be embarked before the fpring. 
 
 With the moft perfect refpeCt, 
 
 1 have the honour to be. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Your moft obedient 
 
 And moft humble fervant. 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne, 
 at Bofton . 
 
 W. Howe. 
 
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 <5 1 Philadelphia , 14 th November 1777. 
 
 THE feafon of the year not permitting the tranfports to pro- 
 ceed to Bofton, they are difpatched to Rhode Ifland, at which 
 
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 place I flatter myfelf you will obtain permiffion to'embark 
 With your troops, as the fpirit of the Convention will not be- 
 infringed in the lmalleft degree by their embarking at that port 
 inftead of Bofton; and under thefe circumftances I am hope- 
 ful you will readily prevail in your application. But fhould 
 it be refu fed, . I can by no means objeft to your returning to 
 Europe, leaving your troops under the dire&ion of Major 
 General Phillips, with orders for the foreign troops to pro- 
 ceed from thence to Plymouth, and the Britifh to Portf- 
 mouth in Great Britain, with all convenient difpatch after 
 the arrival of the tranlports. And if you fhould not obtain 
 permiffion to go to Rhode Ifland, where you will find a fri- 
 gate to receive you, bv fending a letter to Sir Peter Parker, 
 commanding his Majefty’s (hips at that place, the frigate 
 will be lent round to Bofton. 
 
 With the mofl perfeft refpeft, 
 
 I have the honour to be. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. 
 at Bojion. 
 
 Your moft obedient, 
 
 and moft humble fervant, 
 
 W. Howe. 
 
 State of MaffachufetL Bay. 
 
 utat at, /- Head Quarter s 9 Boflon , Nov. Stb. 1 777, 
 
 MAJOR General Heath commanding the Eaftern depart- 
 ment being dilpoled to treat Lieutenant General Burgoyne 
 and his officers with politenefs and generality, and the lol- 
 diery with humanity and care, expeas the utmoft attention 
 of General.Burgoyne and his officers to cultivate and ob- 
 ferve ftntf: order and difcipline among the Britifh and Foreign 
 troops, especially in the following particulars, which are laid 
 down as Handing orders, viz. 
 
 ift. That if any officer fhall exceed the limits of his pa- 
 role, it being a forfeiture of his honour, he is to be imme- 
 diately r confined withm the limits affigned for private men, 
 or if the General fhall think proper, on board the guardfliip 
 2d, All officers under the rank of Field Officers are to 
 repair to their quarters, and not to abfent them after nine 
 © clock in the evening. 
 
 . 3 d ’, A ^n- e ° f this State ’ in order to accommo- 
 
 date the Officers and to prevent impofition, have appointed 
 
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 eommiffaries to fupply the officers and foldiers with variou 9 
 f or ts of provisions brought to Boft on market, which are to be 
 fold to them at the fame prices as were given for them, and 
 care has been alfo taken that the officers Should be fupphed 
 with liquors at the market price, until they can be procured 
 by themfelves from the town of Newport on the ifland of 
 Rhode Ifland, or fuch other place as may be fixed upon for 
 that purpofe ; no officer or foldier is to purchale any aiticle 
 whatever either by himfelf or others, except of the com- 
 miffaries and grand futler, who are appointed as aforefaid. 
 But in cafe the Council or General Afiembly Shall think 
 proper to difcontinue the fupply ing the officers and foldiery 
 in the manner above-mentioned, or Shall think fit to make 
 any alterations in the mode of lupplying them, this article 
 to be void as far as their order may extend, 
 
 4th, The officers will carefully avoid difputes with and 
 every kind of infult or abule to the inhabitants ; Should they 
 receive any they are to enter regular complaints. 
 
 5th, The fervants belonging to the officers who are on 
 parole are not to ftroll from their mailer’s quarters ; they 
 may be Sent to the commiflaries or to the giann lutlei, or 
 ride to wait on their mailers when they Shall think proper to 
 ride out, if they (hall be found otherwife, they will be taken 
 
 up and confined. ta ^ r* 
 
 J. Keith, D. A. G. 
 
 WE whofe names are hereunto fubfcribed, being under 
 the restrictions of the Convention made on the 16th of 
 O&ober laft, between Lieutenant General Burgoyne and 
 Major General Gates, do promife and engage on our word 
 and honour, and on the faith of gentlemen, to remain in 
 the quarters affigned us for our refidence in Cambridge, 
 Charles Town, and Medford in the States of Maffachufet’s 
 Bay, and at no times to exceed or pafs the following limits, 
 viz. ’Charles Town Neck at Swan’s Shop, from thence the 
 Cambride road to the croSTway which communicates with the 
 faid road between Mr. Codman’s houfe and fort, No. 3. the 
 faid crolfway out to the road by Mr. Inman s houte, laid 
 road up by Mr. Dana’s houfe, and Captain Stedman s ta\crn 
 round the corner down to Cambridge bridge, the bridge f'om 
 the North end of Cambridge cauieway by Mr. Welfh s Shop 
 the Water Town road to the firft turn beyond the late 
 Lieutenant Governor Oliver’s houfe ? from Deacon Mills 
 
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 'Kdfcfe down the Charles Town road on to Cambride Common, 
 the Menotomy road, faid road up to Cooper’s tavern, from. 
 Snow’s tavern, the road down by the flone magazine, Med- 
 »id bridge, and Charles T. own road by Winter Hill down 
 tn the firfl mentioned bounds (the intermediate roads are 
 within the parole) during our continuance in this State, or 
 unril the continental General, commanding this State, Coun- 
 C 1 ! of laid State, His Excellency General Wafhington, or 
 the Congrefs of the United States fhall order otherwiie; and 
 that we will not diredtly nor indirectly give any intelligence 
 whatfoever to the enemies of the United States, or do or fay 
 any thing in oppofition to, or in prejudice of, die meafures and 
 proceedings of any Congrefs for the faid States during our 
 coin i nuance here as aforelaid, or until we are duly exchanged 
 or discharged ; and that we will alfo at all times duly obferve 
 and obey the rules and regulations already eflablifhed for the 
 government of the camp. 
 
 ^ Given under our hands at Cambridge in the State of 
 Mailachufet’s Bay, this 9th day of November, in the year 
 o t our Lord 1777. ■ 
 
 t a/t , , Cambridge, Nov. loth, 1771 . 
 
 t AM under the neceffity, and I am perfuaded you will 
 partake my concern of returning to you the parole unfigned 
 the b ntifh regiments having unanimoufly inMed that the 
 Convention is infringed in leveral circumilances, but parti- 
 cularly in the article expreffing that every officer fhall be 
 quartered accord.ng to his rank. I am aware, Sir, of your 
 mentions to remove the field officers as a remedy to the 
 or lent inconveniences, and when I had the honour to fee 
 oc 1 apprehended that meafure might have been of ccnfi- 
 -r- uc avail, otherwiie I fhould not have troubled you to 
 :™! nm the P a P er ,‘ 8 ot fince I have had occafion to vifit 
 “i 1 !* ks niytelf, I am in honour and duty, and fulleft 
 : ,- ;on compelled to join my voice with the other officers 
 uert that the quarters allotted to them would be held 
 ‘i- tor gentlemen in their fituation in any part of the world 
 i have leen many jails preferable, and in \L worft of them 
 a man willing to purchafe fpace may generally be indulged 
 lo far as not to cook, eat, and lie at the rate of fix and emht 
 pei ons in a room about eight feet fquare. The officers feel 
 
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 pofeds willing to receive them as lodgers were they at liberty 
 fo to do. 
 
 The foldiers apartments are likewile much out of repair 
 in many parts. There are many other complaints and cir- 
 curnftances in the regulations want farther explanation, that 
 I will not trouble you with, Sir, becaufe it is my hope and 
 belief, if reafonable men take them into conlideration, they 
 will be eafily redrafted ; but that the article regarding quar- 
 ters fhall be properly fulfilled before any parole is figned, is 
 a fentiment which no individual will depart from. In regard 
 to myfelf, Sir, and General Phillips, I fhall lay little ; our 
 treatment is new to us, though we are not ft rangers to what 
 it is to be in the hands of our enemies. 
 
 We are fully convinced, Sir, we fhould have no caufe of 
 complaint were the power to redrels us in you; but it the 
 bodies in which the great authorities of your ftate are vefted, 
 have not means or inclinations to inlorce, nor the people 
 hoi'pitality and civilization voluntarily to grant compliance 
 in matters of public faith, we have only to proteft: and to 
 claim a removal to fome other diftrift, not imagining it 
 poffible that the fame ideas fhould fubfift in two parts of 
 America. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 with great perfonal refpe£f, 
 and fenle of your attention, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 fo Major Gen. Heath. J. B. 
 
 SIR, Headquarters^ Bojion , Nov. l uh 9 1777* 
 
 I HAD the honour to receive yours of yefterday’s date 
 the laft evening — was not a little furprized to find the parole 
 returned unfigned, as I thought every objettion had been ob- 
 viated on Saturday, and your Excellency had aflured me 
 that if the parole was lent up on Sunday morning it fhould 
 be returned figned in the afternoon. 
 
 I can by no means admit that the Convention is infringed 
 in any inftance. Neceffity has compelled me to quarter a 
 larger number of captains and fubalterns in a room than 
 ufual, but this was by no means to remain. The procuring 
 new quarters for the field officers w T ould make room for others; 
 and as I allured your Excellency no care or attention fhould 
 be wanting in me to make the lituation of the officers as 
 
 eafy 
 
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 eafv and agreeable as circurnftances would admit of, X have 
 teen endeavouring to effc£l it, and hope I lhall fucceed. 
 
 As to the quarters allotted to the officers being fuch as 
 would not be held fit for gentlemen in their fituation in any 
 part of the world; and although your Excellency may have 
 feen jails preferable, yet I can allure you that the lame quar- 
 ters were built for, allotted to, and occupied by, our own. 
 officers of the fame rank, for their winter quarters, and they 
 Were eafy and contented in them. 
 
 The officers boarding promifcuoufly in families, where 
 they' can prevail upon the inhabitants to take them in, will 
 be eflablifhing that intercourfe which it is the wilh of the le- 
 giflature as much as poffible to avoid. 
 
 As to complaints of grievances couched in regulations, I 
 know not of any, the regulations were intended for the good 
 of the inhabitants and foldiery, and lor eftablifhing that order 
 and regularity fo elfentially necelfary under circurnftances 
 like the prelent. 
 
 That the article regarding the officers quarters fhall be 
 properly fulfilled is my determination, and tnat as loon as 
 poffible, but that they fhall not take the liberty of the limits 
 of a parole before they have figned it, is a relblution that X 
 will not depart from, and I expedt that they govern them- 
 felves accordingly. 
 
 I am exceedingly unhappy that your Excellency and Ge- 
 neral Phillips have not as vet luch quarters as 1 fincerely 
 wifh or you defire; no endeavours of mine fhall be wanting 
 to effect it, and I can allure you it is the delire of the 
 Council alfo. 
 
 X muft, defire your Excellency to move into one of the 
 beft houfes that have been taken up, viz. Mrs. Valla IPs or 
 Mr. Inman’s. It will be much more comfortable to yourfelf 
 and agreeable to others, than being in a public houle, and 
 fuch removal fhall not in the leaft abate our endeavours to 
 procure you better quarters. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 with great perfonal refpe£l, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 molt obedient fervant. 
 
 His Excellency W. Heath. 
 
 Lieut. Gen, Burgoyne, 
 
 SIR* 
 
S I R, 
 
 I HAVE the honour of your letter of this clay’s date, 
 and have only to return in anlwer, that till the infringe- 
 ments of the Convention are redrefTed, in regard to the 
 quartering of officers particularly, I cannot confident with 
 my duty or principles, accept perfonally of any othe- ac* 
 commodations than fuch as I am now fubje£led to ; fhould it 
 pleafe the will of your government ito make them worfe, 
 I -perfuade myfelf I (hall continue to perlevere as becomes 
 me. 
 
 I have the honour to be, &c. 
 
 Nov. lit)?, 1777. J. B. 
 
 Major General Heath . _ , 
 
 Copy of Lieutenant General Burgcyne's Letter to Major General 
 
 Heat/?. 
 
 SIR, Nov. 12 th, 1777. 
 
 NO alteration having yet been made refpe&ing the ac- 
 commodation of the troops, you will not be furprifed at the 
 increafe of my anxiety, and I am perfuaded you will readily 
 .gXcufe the trouble it occafions you. 
 
 The time elapfed muft have been fufficient to determine 
 what the government, civil and military, is able or dilpofed 
 to do, and 1 requefl from you, Sir, as ipeedy 1 a communica- 
 tion as may be of their final decifion. 
 
 On the part of the troops, I have to inform you, that 
 the officers are ready to fign the parole propofed, as foon as 
 the terms neceflarily previous to that obligation are fulfilled, 
 and that proper explanation is given relative to fome circum- 
 ftances of the regulations. I am confident the latter are of a 
 nature that will admit of no difficulty when laid before you. 
 
 Having intimated to you in my letter of yeflerday, my 
 intention of not feparating my lot from that of the army, I 
 Ihould not trouble you with any word at prelent upon the 
 fubjedt of quarters, were it not that the arrival of my bag- 
 .gage and that of Major General Phillips, and the prefent 
 fituation of it upon Cambridge Common, expofe any men 
 deftined to the care of it, to great hardfhips in point of 
 weather, and without a guard I fuppofe the fecurity of our 
 property would be fmall. The houfes you mentioned yefler- 
 day arc fo exceedingly inconvenient, the one in point of 
 fize, and the other in being deficient in eyery article of fur- 
 niture, 
 
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 niture, that to occupy cither would make my condition worfe 
 than it is. The houfe of Mr. Temple would certainly fuit 
 me exceedingly well, and fhould the great effential matters 
 of public faith again take fuch a turn as might juftify me 
 in accepting a favour, I fhould certainly hold myfelf obliged 
 to you for your good offices to procure me that particula. 
 
 qU That nothing maybe left undone by me to accommodate 
 all the matters in agitation, I will defire Major General 
 Phillips to attend you to-morrow morning, it you approve 
 of it, in order to difeufs and regulate every point- u P on 
 which difficulties have already ariten, or upon which they 
 
 may be forefeen. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 with great perfonal refpett, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your moll obedient lervant, 
 
 Mam General Heath. J- Burgoyne. 
 
 State of Maffachufet 1 s Bay . 
 
 Headquarters, Bojion , Nov . 14 tb, 1777- 
 PERMIT the , to proceed to 
 
 the eaftern parts of this State, and return with a load 
 of wood for the ufe of the troops ot Lieutenant General 
 
 Burgoyne’s army. 
 
 I do hereby certify that if the or wood 
 
 is detained the Paid troops only will be {offerers. 
 
 <To the Commanders of the Bntijh W. Heath, M. G. 
 
 VeJJels cruizing on the Coajt of 
 
 Jllajfacbpjet’ s Bay. 
 
 Lieutenant General Burgoyne concurs in the above pafs, 
 Maior General Heath having engaged his faith that it fhall 
 not' be employed for any other purpote than that fpeafied. 
 
 Cambridge,\Nw. 1 4 th, 1777- J- Burgoyne, Lieut. Gen. 
 
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 g I r Council Chamber , Nov. i$th, 1 7 7 7- 
 
 MR Aullin and myfelf were to lay the inclofed papers 
 before ’vou laft evening, but the other important bufinefs 
 pulhed it out of my mind— The board alk the favour of 
 
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 you to lay the matter before General Burgoyne, and if he 
 can furnifh them with cloathing, perhaps a blanket 01 a 
 trifle more may anfwer, the Council will difcharge them 
 on parole, and luffer them to return to Quebec : they are all 
 Canadians and in number about thirty -five, were taken with 
 Colonel Baum’s party ; if any thing can be done, pleale to 
 inform the Board by one of your aid-de-camps, or any other 
 vvay more agreeable to your honour. 
 
 I am, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 very refpeclfully, 
 
 Your humble fervant, 
 
 R. Derby, jun. 
 
 "To the Ccmmiflary of Prifoners . 
 
 I 
 
 SIR 
 
 ' SINCE we had the pleafure of feeing you, we have flat- 
 tered ourfelves that your promife would have been efFefted, 
 that is to fay, that we fhould be relieved from this fhip to be 
 better, but we fee with anxiety that nothing is done — for 
 which reafon we have now the honour to acquaint you, that 
 our fituation is too difagreeable to continue long, the far- 
 ther we go the worfe we are ; being reduced to lay one 
 upon the other, the vermin devouring us, without adding 
 more of the miferies of men, all of which we have. 
 
 Make us all the propofition, or any you pleafe, to obtain 
 i, our releafement we will confent to any thing. 
 
 We beg you will pay a little attention to our requeft, and 
 
 believe us. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your moft humble 
 
 and obedient fervants, 
 
 The Canadians. 
 
 
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 SEVERAL days are now paft fince we have been in- 
 formed of your arrival. Judge of the joy of all the poor 
 Canadians, who as well as ourfelves are flattered you have 
 obtained them leave to return to our homes: you cant 
 imagine in what a difagreeable fituation we are in, no men 
 on earth were ever worfe ; we are devoured with vermin, 
 
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 and three parts in a manner naked ; we are perfuaded if thofe 
 gentlemen (meaning the Council) law our diftreis, they 
 certainly would feel for us. We are convinced you will 
 do every thing in your power to obtain our removal from 
 this fhip, for we give you our honours that more than half 
 will never live to lee fpnng if they are not removed. 
 
 Is it poffible thofe gentlemen do not feel for fo many 
 poor fathers of families, who beg and pray them to have 
 companion on them. We requeit you to intereit yourfelf in 
 our behalf; endeavour to obtain our releafement ; come and 
 fee us in the miferable iituation we are in ; we place great 
 confidence in you as well as in Mr. M‘Carty, to whom we 
 ’ have the honour to be, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 Your molt obedient humble fervants, 
 
 Cleanco'ur., 
 
 Our refpeCts to your Ladies, Bleury. 
 
 To Jl -fr. Pnce . 
 
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 SIR, Cambridge , Nov. 18 tb, 1777. 
 
 THE inclement feafon advancing fait, and the cold the 
 foldiers endure bv the expofure and conltruCtion of the bar- 
 racks being already extreme, it becomes an objeCt of the 
 greateft concern with me to provide for their relief. I 
 therefore requeit you, Sir, and I am perfuaded your dilpo- 
 lition will intereit you in my application, to order enquiry 
 to be made in what quantity, and at what price, blanketing, 
 or warm mittens, or cloth proper to make lbldiers leggings, 
 can be purchaled at Bolton. 
 
 From what 1 have been able to gather in converfation, I 
 apprehend much expectation cannot be placed upon any of‘ 
 thele fuppiies in Bolton at prefent ; I therefore, as the next 
 refource defire your protection to forward the letter incloled 
 to General Pigot at Rhode Illand by expreis, and to grant 
 Inch pallports as may lecure the expeditious conveyance 
 of inch materials as can be furnifhed there at the prefent, or 
 be afterwards tranfported thither from New York. 
 
 I confide, Sir, to your honour not to make public un- 
 nfeeeflarily what I have written to General Pigot concerning 
 the fate of the army and mylelf ; at the lame time, if there 
 
 a fentence or a word that upon perufal you ihall think 
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 improper to let pafs, I will change or efface it. My only 
 views are to remove mifreprefentations that may effect my 
 reputation, and to fecure a fafe conveyance for my letter* 
 I requeft the meffage may be of your own ordering, and i 
 will reacily pay the expence that may beft infure his quick 
 return. 
 
 I fhrll have to beg the fame fort of favour of you in 
 a few days, to pafs an open letter to Sir William Howe. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 ^ our obedient fervant, 
 
 To M '. G. Heath . J. BurgoynE. 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , Nov. iStb, 1777. 
 
 I HAVE the honour of yours with papers inclofed from 
 the Council, refpe£ting about thirty-live Canadian prifoners. 
 It is with great pain i learn that any of the lubjetts of the 
 King, taken as I underftand in arms, fhould be expofed to 
 the treatment they reprefent, which the Council do not 
 leem to contradict. 
 
 The Board being now difpoled to difeharge them 'on pa- 
 role, I fhould be happy to contribute any thing in my power 
 to their further comfort; and if blankets or any other fe- 
 curities againft the inclemency of the feafon could be pur- 
 chafed in Bolton at a price within reafon, I fhould certainly 
 confider thefe poor men among the reft of the army. 
 
 I tranfmit to you. Sir, in a feparate letter, what has oc- 
 curred to me relative to fupplying the foldiers with indif- 
 penlable neceffaries, and I doubt not of your concurrence for 
 carrying any plan of humanity into fpeedy effeCt. 
 
 I am, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your obedient fervant, 
 
 Afajor Gen. Heath. J. BurgoynE. 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , Nov. 18 th, 1777. 
 
 HAVING already troubled you with two letters of this 
 date, I fhould not intrude farther upon your time, were it not 
 that I think the occafion particular, both in point of pro- : 
 priety and of juflice. 
 
 Several Britifh foldiers have abfeonded within thefe few 
 [days; letters have been received from fome, fetting forth, 
 
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 that they had no intention to defert, but that they had been 
 induced to feek fhelter in the country, from the great hard- 
 ens they endured by the fcarcity of wood, and the incon- 
 venience of die barracks: others have made known to tneir 
 officers that they were decoyed away, made drunk, and af- 
 terwards engaged in yourfervice, when not matters of their 
 reafon. To confirm this alTertion, it is reported to me that 
 a houfe of reception is opened at the foot of the Barrack 
 Hill, where liquor is diftributed gratis to the folchery, and 
 where deferters from us, of lei's penitent fpirit than thofe 
 above defcribed, are hourly appearing in new regimentals of 
 vour fervice, offering promifes and money to inveigle their 
 former comrades, and in the grolleft manner inlulnng then- 
 
 former officers. , . 
 
 I am perfuaded, Sir, you will be concerned to hear the 
 fuft excufe ftated for the abfconding of fcldiers ; but it is 
 upon the latter grievance I mean to make my particular 
 complaint, and 1 am confident I need only mention it to J 
 induce you to give you iuch orders as may moft effectually 
 difcountenance what is paft, and prevent any future attempts 
 of fo unfair a kind. In the mean time I fhall endeavour to J 
 make proper examples of iuch offenders of our own as have 
 been deteCted.J 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your obedient fervant, 
 
 Major Gen. Heath. j- BURGOYNE. 
 
 GENERAL ORDERS. 
 
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 Head Quarters, Bojlon , d^'ov. 20, 1777 * 
 
 IN confequence of exprels orders from the honourable 
 Continental Congrefs, received on yefterday, the name and 
 rank of every commifiioned officer, and the name,, for- 
 mer place of abode, and occupation, fize, age and defcription 
 of every non-commiflioned officer and private foldier, and all 
 other perfons comprehended in the Convention made between 
 Lieutenant General Burgoyne and Major General Gates, on 
 the 1 6th day of October, 1777, are to be carefully taken down 
 in writing. — Lieutenant General Burgoyne will pleafe im- 
 mediately to order his Deputy Adjutant General to prepare 
 the lifts accordingly ; and Major Andrew Brown is direCted 
 to receive lifts, anci to pals the non-commiflioned officers and 
 
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 foldiers, ftriaiy obferving that the defcriptions are rightly 
 noted, and correct them where there are any miftakes. 
 
 This bufinefs is immediately to be attended to. 
 
 g j -R Cambridge , Nov, 20 , 1777 * 
 
 I HAVE received a paper, dated Head Quarters, Button, 
 Nov. 20 th, purporting to be founded upon exprels oidcrs from 
 the honourable Continental Congrefs, which paper I return 
 as inadmiflible, becaufe extending to matter in which the 
 Congrefs have no right of interference. 
 
 A lift of the names and rank of every com million officer, 
 and the numbers of the non-commiflion officers and foldiers 
 may be neceffary to you, Sir, for the purpofe of fulfilling the 
 Convention in the quartering officers, and the regular delivery 
 of proviftons, fuel, &c. Such lifts fhall be prepared at your 
 requeft ; but before any other lifts can be granted, I mull be 
 allured of the purpofes for which they are intended, and the 
 word Order muft neither be mentioned nor implied. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your obedient fervant, 
 
 To Major General Heath, J* E. 
 
 SIR, Head ghfarters, Bojlon, Nov, 21,1777. 
 
 YOUR feveral letters of the 18th inftant were duly re- 
 ceived. A multiplicity of prefling avocations has prevented 
 my anfwering of them l'ooner. 
 
 Blanketing or other articles neceffary for the comfort of 
 your troops cannot be obtained in Bofton ; and I think your 
 plan of procuring them from Rhode-ldand eligible. \ ou 
 may depend upon mv afliftance in facilitating any a&s of 
 humanitv. It will be'beft that the cloathing fhould be land- 
 ed at Providence, Swanfey, or Taunton (unlels you would run 
 the rifk of tranfporting of them to this place by water) to ei- 
 ther of which places I will give free paflports, and one of vour 
 quarter-mafters fhall have my permiflion to go up upon then 
 arrival, to procure teams and fee them fate down, in which he 
 fhall have the afliftance of one of my conductors. 
 
 Your packet to General Pigot fhall be fent by a faithful 
 meffenger, perhaps by one of my own family ; and although 
 your narrative ot cafualties is rather more particular than is 
 1 ' cuftomary 
 
3iiv 
 
 appendix to the 
 
 cullomary, in like cafes, yet I fhall not infill upon any alte- 
 rations. J 
 
 In another of your letters of the fame date, you enumerate 
 feveral allegations new and furprifing to me. I have repea- 
 tedly and moll ftri&ly, in general orders, forbid the foldiery 
 of the Convention palling the chain of fentries ; and to prevent 
 imposition, by pretence of being officers’ fervants, have or- 
 dered printed palTes to be given to thofe who are really fuch 
 and if any others pais, it is a breach of orders, which 1 expedl 
 your officers as well as the guards and centinels will exert 
 themielves to prevent. I cannot admit that the fcarcity of 
 wood, or inconvenience of the barracks, has been the induce- 
 ment to dele rtion ; for although (notwithllanding our utmoll 
 exertion) the troops might luffer for want of fuel, yet they 
 have lince a fupply equal to that allowed our own troops, 
 who, while performing hard duty, have worfe barracks, and 
 
 *^*5°*? t0 the lnclem ency of the feafon. I have 
 
 llriaiy forbid intercourfe or converfation between the troops, 
 and inftead of their having liquor offered them gratis, I feve- 
 ral days fince direded that finall parties Ihould vifit the pu- 
 bhc houies, and take up and confine fuch foldiers as they 
 might find in them. As to their infilling into our fervice it 
 is diredly contrary to an exprels order of Congrefs, and du- 
 ring my command here, I have llriftly enjoin?d on the re- 
 cruitmg officers not to infill prifoners or deferters from the 
 tntilh army who have delerted during this campaign and 
 have obliged them to releafe many. After all, you xlu rea- 
 dily admit that defections will happen in all armies, and it 
 \\i\l be no wonder if they Ihould be confiderable from one 
 -lrcumllanced like yours ; and while I am determined to dif- 
 countenance and prevent, as much as poffible, all unfair prac- 
 tices, and you endeavour to make proper examples of any of 
 youi own ioldiers who may be dete&ed, I mull defire Vo u 
 
 wd pleale to avoid any capital punilhments during vour con- 
 tinuance in this Hate. ° J 
 
 Your other letter, refpefting the Canadians, I have fent to 
 
 5%: . h ° m 1 ** I tranfmitted^ou 
 
 I am, 
 
 with fentiments of elleem, 
 
 tr 1 77 77 ^ our Excellency’s obedient fervaot, 
 
 Hu Excellency W. He at m g ant ’ 
 
 General Burgoyne * 3 
 
 SIR, 
 
CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 SIR, Head Quarters, Bofion, Nov. 21, 1 777* 
 
 YOURS of yefterday is before me, and altho’ you might 
 at firft imagine that the honourable Continental Congrefs 
 have no right of interference in matters of the Convention, 
 yet I conclude, upon further refle£lion, you muft be convinced 
 that as that body are the reprelentatives of that people who 
 are to reap the advantages or diiadvantages of the Convention, 
 and as all continental officers are atting by virtue of their au- 
 thority, and under their dire&ion, they affuredly have aright 
 of interference, and to give fuch orders to their officers as they 
 may think proper, for the full completion of the Convention, 
 and for the fafety and good of the people. 
 
 The paragraph of my orders of the 20th inftant, refpedfing 
 the troops of the Convention, is founded in reafon and juft ice, 
 being deftgned only to afeertain the officers and foldiers who 
 are comprehended in the Convention, that in cafe any of 
 them (contrary to their faith and honour) fhould hereafter be 
 found in arms againft thefe States in North America, during 
 the prefent conteft, they may be convitted of the offence and 
 iuffer the punifhment in fuch cafes inflitted by the law of na- 
 tions : I muft therefore inftft that you furnifh me with pro- 
 per lifts of names and deferiptions, for the purpofes before- 
 mentioned, as foon as may be. 
 
 The other lifts of the names and rank of the commiffion 
 officers, and the number of non -commiffion officers and fol- 
 diers, foeffentially neceftary for the feveral purpofes of re- 
 gularity with quarter-mafters and commiftaries (and which 
 ffiould be frequently renewed as circumftances may vary) 
 ffiould long ere this have been exhibited. Some days lince 
 1 dire&ed my Deputy Adjutant General to call for them, 
 and I expett they will be lent in without delay, for the pur- 
 pofe abovementioned. 
 
 I fhall at all times endeavour to found my orders on the 
 principles of honour, reafon andjuftice, and not to infringe 
 thofe delicate principles in others j but my orders for the pur- 
 pofes of order and regularity muft be obeyed by every man 
 and all bodies of men placed under my direftion, and fully 
 determined I am that offenders fhall not pafs with impunity# 
 I am, 
 
 with great perfonal regard, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 moft obedient fervant 
 
 1'ieut. Gen. Burgoyne . W. Heath, M. G. 
 
 ' SIR, 
 
appendix to the 
 
 I 
 
 g j Cambridge , Nov. 23, 1777 * 
 
 YOURktter, dated Bofton,Nov. 21ft, renewing the iub- 
 ieft of a former letter which refpefted orders from the Conti- 
 nental Congrefs for furnifhing defcriptive lifts of the non- 
 commiffioned officers and foldiers, came to my hand only on 
 
 I rely upon you to enquire into the caufes of delay in the 
 delivery of letters, that ffiould there be any want of punctua- 
 lity in the aniwers, that inattention may not be imputed to 
 
 I* am forry you ffiould have fuppofed me of fo light a cha- 
 T after as to have afted in a ierious matter of {late upon a 
 fudden impreffion ; be atfured, 1 very well weighed my an- 
 iwer before I gave it .; and having done fo, you will not be 
 furprifed that I am determined to abide by it. 
 
 1 am not fo ignorant of the rights and cuftoms of tne civi- 
 lised world as to ffifpute that the legiflative powers of every 
 eommunitv have, and ought to have, juft controul over the 
 aSlions of all perfons found in the limits of their jurildi&ion, 
 as far as regards the obfervance of their general promulgated 
 laws in criminal or civil police. But this acknowledgment 
 does not at all apply, to the cafe in queftion, where the Con- 
 orefs, as the executive power of the ftate, think proper to 11- 
 fue an order to perfons, not their ffibje&s, in a matter noway 
 relating to the civil government of the country, but aftuming 
 a right t :o impofe new conditions on a treaty of public faith. . 
 
 .. Perhaps, Sir, you will not find, in the whole hlftory of mi- 
 litary conventions or even capitulations, many inftances 
 wherein there is not an article binding upon one of the parties 
 not to ferve for a limited time ; but I defy you to find z Jingle 
 inftance where any other fecurity was demanded for that 
 obligation than the pledge of national faith. 
 
 •I cannot therefore but look upon the reafons you give for 
 demanding defcriptive lifts, viz. “ to afeertain the officers and 
 loidier.s in caie they Ihould hereafter take arms contrai y 
 so their faith and honour,” as an unprecedented infult upon 
 WJ country. 
 
 / If you vvilli to defeend from general hiftory to particular and 
 recent fafts upon this fubjeft, I beg leave to call your recol- 
 le£tion to the condudl of Sir Guy Carleton and mylelf (for 
 he did me the honour to confult me) when laft year we re- 
 leafed from Canada many hundred prifoners of the Continen- 
 tal troops, upon their bare parole of not feiwing againft the 
 
 .... i ' 3 ’ Kin s 
 
/ 
 
 CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 King till exchanged. We have fince had no other depen- 
 dence than that of public faith, that thole men have not been 
 indifcriminately employed in arms. We have refted ealy 
 under this dependence/it is true, becaufe we fuppofe every 
 officer in the Continental army would be ready to punifh the 
 offenders, as we fhould be in the like cale. 
 
 I have been drawn unawares into a long explanation ; but 
 I truft it will have effeft to prevent any farther trouble upon 
 this fubjett either to you, or to, 
 
 S I 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 
 JVIaj. Gen, Heath, J* B. 
 
 S I R, Cambridge , Nov, 24, 1 7 7 7. 
 
 SINCE I faw your officer this morning, I have received a 
 difpatch from Sir William Howe, informing me that tran- 
 fports were preparing with all poffible expedition, to convey 
 the troops under the convention to England. 
 
 Matter arifes, in regard to the embarkation, which I con- 
 ceive it may be the intereft of both parties to adjuft fo as to 
 prevent delays; and as it may become neceffary to have com- 
 munication with General Wafhington, or poffibly with the 
 Continental Congrefs, I beg the favour of an interview with 
 you as foon as may be, when I fhall lay the whole matter be- 
 fore you. 
 
 It is an additional reafon to defire to fee you in perfon, that 
 I fhall think the fame occafion may ferve to difcufs, and I 
 hope cordially and finally to fettle, feveral matters at prefent 
 jn agitation between us, fome of which certainly want expla- 
 nation alone. 
 
 If you will name any hour to-morrow, I will have the ho- 
 nour to wait upon you either at Bofton or at Cambridge, and 
 I conclude you will not object to my bringing Major General 
 Phillips with me. 1 am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Maj, Gen, Heath, J. Burgoyne, 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , Nov ■ 25, 1777. 
 
 YOUR Excellency will have obferved by the difpatch from 
 Sir William Howe to me, which paffed through your hands, 
 that it was matter of great doubt whether the traniports de- 
 
 c ftincd 
 
 

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 I ' ' • ’ 
 
 Xviii . APPENDIX TO THE 
 
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 ftined to carry the troops to England, according to the con- 
 vention, would be able to make the port of Bofton in this ad- 
 vanced leafon of the year ; and therefore, that it might be 
 advifable to fend them to Rhode Iiland, upon the fuppohtion 
 that a mere change of place, which made no alteration in the 
 intent and meaning of the convention, would be readily 
 agreed to. 
 
 That no time may be loft in an embarkation which I con- 
 ceive will be equally defirable to the troops and to this coun- 
 try in point of convenicncy, I take theearlieft occafton to ap- 
 ply to your Exceilencv, or through your means, if you judge 
 neceftary, to the Continental Congrefs, for confent to march 
 the troops. to Providence, or fuch other place as may be com- 
 modious to pafs them by fmall craft to Newport. This march 
 to take place whenever advice fhall be received of the arrival 
 of the tranfports. — Should any objection be againft Rhode- 
 Hland, any convenient port in the found would equally an- 
 fwer the purpofe. 
 
 Should any confederations arift, which I do not forelee, to 
 , make the whole propofal objettionable to vourfelf or the Con- 
 
 grefs, and the troops fhould be obliged to wait the paiTage of 
 the tranfports round Cape Cod ; I in that cafe requeft pafT- 
 ports for myfelf and my luite to Rhode-Ifland, in order to 
 embark on board a feparate frigate : not only matters of great 
 private concern in bufinefs, but alfo my ftate of health, re- 
 quiring my fpeedy return to England. 
 
 I have no fcruple, Sir, in afking this favour at your hands, 
 nor fhall I have any in acknowledging it, confident that no duty 
 is impaired by an intercourfe of perlonal civilities in matters 
 where the public caule cannot poftibiy be committed or af- 
 fefted. 
 
 The packet directed to Sir William Howe, inclofed here- 
 with, contains recommendations in which the preferment of 
 many meritorious individuals is deeply interefted. I am per- 
 suaded, Sir, that delcription will be a full apology for trou- 
 bling you to pafs it by a trumpet. I have the honour to be 
 ' * ‘ * SIR, 
 
 Your moft obedient 
 
 • His Excellency and moft humble fervant, 
 
 Ge>h Ifafbin^ton, &c. J. Burgoyne, Lt. Gen. 
 
 ' ;; - 
 
 SIR, 
 
 * V i . . 
 
 
: " CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 g 2 ^ Cambridge , Dec. 4^ 
 
 HAVING received information that Cornet Grant of the 
 16th regiment of dragoons is prifoner on board a guardihip, 
 and very feverely treated ; I beg leave, through your means, 
 to make enquiry into the caufe, and alfo to repreterit to you, 
 that he was exchanged by Major General Gates, and that you 
 will find his name in the lift tranfmitted to you from that ge- 
 neral. I have therefore to require his , immediate releafe. 1 
 take the fame occafion to requeft a lift of all officers ar d 
 diets now prifoners of war in the ftate of Maffachulet s, fpc- 
 cifyinn the times when and the places where they were taken, 
 in-order that I may be enabled to grant relief in money and 
 neceffaries to filch as may have occafion, and I Ihould be glad 
 to know the propereft method of diftributmg luch 1 elief. 
 
 I am aware, Sir, that yours may not be the proper chann 1 
 for this application ; bat' in a matter of humanity 1 am con- 
 fident you will not think it a trouble to give it due dire^ton 
 
 and fupport. 1 am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Yowr moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Maj. Gen. Heath. J* E * 
 
 XiX 
 
 SIR 
 
 BY an e’xprefs received this morning from Major Gene- 
 ral Pigot, forwarded by order of Major General Spencer, 
 am informed that tranlports are arrived at Rhoc.e-Iiland, iuf- 
 ficient to convey the troops under the Convention to Great 
 Britain. The leafon of the year makes the pafTage of the 
 tranlports to the port of Bofton very hazardous, it not im- 
 
 ^Th^lrtttr and fpir it of the treaty being exprefs upon the 
 purpofe of a free and fpeedy paffage to Great Bntam, I con- 
 ceive no objeftion can arife to my app ication for paffports 
 and efcort to march the troops to Providence, and for aonut- 
 fion of fuch fmall craft there as may be neceflary to convey 
 them immediately on board their refpeftive fliips withou go- 
 ing on fhore in Rhode Ifland, the expences for the convey- 
 ance of baggage and other articles incident upon the march 
 and for the embarkation, to be paid by the troops under the 
 fame regulations as upon the march from Aloany. 
 
 Befides the general propriety of this rtieafure, refpe&ing the 
 troops, muft be, I am perfuaded, particularly acceptable 
 
XX 
 
 APPENDIX TO THF 
 
 who a on the narr a r " 
 
 from the prefenArouble^bmr’h 35 'r 7 l!e,es the country 
 tlon > and all other difficulties 6 ^iV r acc °mmoda°- 
 
 t > accomplith thele Durnnf. } addrefs m yfelf to you. Sir 
 
 fpefting the execution of the mtatyVnf a " matters re - 
 «on, are now under your dire£tion X ’ J dete ™>nable at Bo- 
 
 teqoeft the favour of an anfwer as /oon as convenient 
 
 #4. Ge„. Heath. “ d am > &C ’ ’ 
 
 J. B. 
 
 1 RECEIVED vom' a ft^ art r S ’ „oJI°n, Dec. io, 1777. 
 gening, in which you requefl wITpon^^ 37 ’ 3 the Jaf * 
 
 s » = " “ 
 
 knowledge or diredlion of tha? hTno^rabfT witho ' ,t ,h « 
 
 fed to fignify as muc “ h ft to » “^nenot long fincebeen plea- 
 
 only had the right of altering the lee rh r ’ 7u , thatC °ngref3 
 vour opinion, when you deftred me to’f ’ 1 , bei kcve.wasalfo 
 to General Waftington, chn ifTr f °™ ard y° ,|r dir P a tch 
 J>e might obtain the opinion of r ppear ; d n ' cef I>y to him, 
 forwarded, agreeable to your reouett ' & \ that dlf P a tch I 
 
 hope foon to have an anfwer S ^ if fa " hful hand 5 I 
 communicated to vou • m 't ’ h Wlthout delay frail be 
 that objections wiiHe mad^ t^f ^ « ar e 
 
 Southward, and I mention i, th V* ° ps marcl,i n g to the 
 the tranfporis ordered round ,7 X ? T «o h ve 
 
 Eeery exertion in my ^ think proper, 
 
 cannot, in any rnflance, devSe from rh n' d to y»u ; but I 
 Out the permiffipn of Con^refs Convenc 'on, wrih- 
 
 ^ °ur other letters have not 'na/TM r t 
 want of attention ; all the prifonp r s o/° ^ Unanfwer ^ for 
 rtclion of council, and after! receive f are Under the d »- 
 to adarefs them on the fubie&s whirh ' ° Ur etters P 2m obliged 
 “e* feveral days elapfe before^ l' ^ can °f and 
 
 This trouble, however Sir o-’ obtain their anfwer 
 
 thereby obviate the necelf.tfesif g thToP; e pleaf " e > if 1 can 
 
 would not have it in the ieaft lelfen °1 foId,er y. a od I 
 but you Will not attribute thenrocr J , appll ? t,n " s «» me . 
 to me. tne P'ocraftmattun of the anfwers 
 
 C'H ; 
 
 Congrefs 
 
CANADA PAPERS 
 
 Xxi 
 
 Con?refs having pafted feme rcfolves refpedling Colonel 
 Campbell and feme Heffian officers, in reference to General 
 Lee, I am informed that he cannot be exchanged until that 
 matter is fettled. Council have ordered their commifiary of 
 prifoners to make me out a lift of all officers and foldiers in 
 this ftate who are prifoners of war, and the time when anti 
 where taken ; wheri I receive it, it (hall be communicated to 
 you ; they alfo inform me, that, upon having the proper 
 evidence of the exchange of Cornet Grant, he ftiall be re- 
 leafed. I requeft you to fend me down a copy of the ex- 
 
 I DID mvfelf the pleafure to write to you by the officer of 
 dragoons who left this place for Albany about three weeks 
 ago, and I fent you, by the fame occafion, the correct lift you 
 deftred of the troops of the Convention, which I hope you 
 received fafe. 
 
 The furgeon, who has the charge of ihehofpital at Albany, 
 reports to me that your commifiary refufes to receive the pa- 
 per currency of the country, and infills upon hard money for 
 ail the expenditure. A proceeding fo dire&ly againft your 
 own laws, will, I am perfuaded, be ftrongly reprehended by 
 you, and I have diredted the furgeon to make representations 
 to you for red refs. 
 
 1 equally rely, Sir, upon your juftice, to difcountenance 
 fuen perfons as inveigle difeharged men from the hofpital to 
 defert. I am fure you will think it an unfair dealing, in any 
 inftances ; but when it is farther employed to enlift the de- 
 ferters into the continental troops, it becomes a breach, as I 
 underftand, of a refolution of the Congrefs, enforced by the 
 orders of General Wafttington. 
 
 I cannot pretend to fay, whether the delay of my embarka- 
 tion may belong enough to give me an opportunity of receiv- 
 ing any anfwer to this, or of writing to you again. I beg 
 you to belieye me, at all time , and in all places, mindful of 
 your perfonal civilities, and am. 
 
 change. • I 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. 
 
 I am, SIR, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 
 W. Heath, M. G. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Cambridge, Dec. 12, 1777 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 
 (Signed) J. Burgoyne. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 
xxu 
 
 APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 SIR, Head Quarters, Bojlon , 16, 1 777. 
 
 YESTERDAY I received, by exprefs, a refolution of the 
 honourable Continental Congrefs, paded the firft of this in- 
 ftant directing that when the troops of the Convention em- 
 bark, it be at the port ftipulated by the Convention of Sara- 
 toga, and no other. I thought it might be agreeable to you 
 to have the earlieft notice of it. 
 
 I am 
 
 Your Excellency’s moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen . Bur goyne. W. Heath. 
 
 SIR, Head- Quarters , Dec. 17, 1777. 
 
 I WAS, a few days ago, honoured with yours of the 25th 
 of November. The packets for Sir William Howe, and the 
 letters for gentlemen in his army, were immediately forwarded 
 to Philadelphia. 
 
 As I did not confiaer myfelf at liberty to anfwer either of 
 your requefts without firft confulting Congrefs, I have tranf- 
 mitted a copy of your letter to them, and have defired their 
 determination as fpeedily as poflible. As foon as I know the 
 refult, I fhall take the earlieft opportunity of acquainting you 
 with it. I have the honour to be, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your raoft obedient humble fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Bur goyne. G. Washington. 
 
 .7 .... 
 
 In Congrefs , Dec. 17 th, 1777 * 
 RESOLVED, that General Washington be directed to 
 inform General Burgoyne, the Congrefs will not receive nor 
 confider any propofition for indulgence or altering the terms 
 of the Convention of Saratoga, unlefs immediately directed to 
 their own body. 
 
 Extract from the Minutes, 
 
 (Copy.) Charles Thompson, Sec. 
 
 SIR, Head- Quarters, Dec. 20, 1778. 
 
 WHEN I had the honour of addrefling you, on the 17th 
 inftant, I informed you that I had tranfmitted a copy of your 
 letter to Congrefs. The inclofed copy of their refolution 
 pafled upon that fubjeft, which I fend in purfuance of their 
 direction, will fhew you the only anfwer I have obtained to 
 
 s yoqr 
 
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 CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 your proportions. It remains folely with Congrefs to grant 
 the indulgences which you requeft. The bearer will im- 
 mediately return, by whom you may have an opportunity of 
 writing to them. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 With due reipe&, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 lfour moft obedient fervant. 
 
 Lieutenant General Burgoyne.. G. Washington. 
 
 SIR, Head-Quarters, Bojlon , Dec. 22, 1777. 
 
 AS the purchafe of provifions, fuel, &c. for your troops, 
 occafions a very confiderable expence to this department, I 
 fhould take it as a favour to be informed by you, whether it 
 will be agreeable to you to make monthly payments for the 
 fupplies which are furnilhed to your troops j or, if you can- 
 not conveniently make monthly payments, that you would 
 advance fuch a fum of money as your circumftan^es will ad- 
 mit of, and that you would pleafe to inform me on what day 
 it fhall be paid, if pra&icable. 
 
 I obferved, by General Pigot’s letter, which I tranfmitted 
 you the laft week, that a floop load of flour had arrived at 
 Rhode-lfland for the ufe of your troops. 
 
 1 am, SIR, 
 
 Y our obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut , Gen . Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 XXlll 
 
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 SIR, Cambridge , Jan. 3, 1778. 
 
 AS you made no objection to my propofal of fending a pro- 
 per perfon to Rhode-lfland for a fupply of money for the ufe 
 of tne troops of the Convention, I dire&ed preparation ac- 
 cordingly, and have expelled yefterday and this morning to 
 hear from you, according to your engagement. To avoid 
 any farther delays, I now make a requifition to you that Mr. 
 Qeddes, a6ting paymafter to the troops of the Convention, be 
 furnifhed with a paffport to Rhode-ifland, upon his parole, to 
 return at a proper limited time, and likewife that means may 
 betaken to proeure him a proper efcort, upon his return to 
 Providence, for his fafe conduct to Cambridge, with fuch 
 fums as he fhall be able to obtain. I beg the favour of your 
 anfwer this evening, and Mr. Gedde 3 fhall be ready to wait 
 upon you to-morrow morning (if you think it neceffary) to 
 ihew you the letters he is charged with, 
 
 ' I fhall 
 
appendix to the 
 
 I fhall be obliged to you for information when your meflen- 
 eer lets out on his return to General Washington. 
 
 ^ I am, SIR, &c. &c. 
 
 Maj. Gen. Heath. J. Burgoyne. 
 
 S I R, Heed- Quarters, Boflon , Jan. 3, 1778. 
 
 YOURS of this date is juft ’come to hand. Mr. Geddes 
 fhall have a paflport to Rhode- Hland upon calling to-morrow 
 at my quarters, giving his parole, &c. 
 
 My exprefs will return to the fouthward on Monday or 
 Tuefday next at fartheft. 
 
 You was pleafed to mention, the other day, a man of war’s 
 coming round to take you to England. The refolve, which 
 I fent'you a copy of this day, fettles the matter as to your 
 going before the troops ; and, upon farther confideratton, I 
 think it would be rather improper for a man of war to come, 
 as a flag, either before or with the tranfports, and your Ex- 
 cellency can be equally accommodated on board a convenient 
 tranfport : I think that fuch a one will be moft proper, and 
 a man of war cannot be admitted into the harbour. 
 
 ' I am 
 
 Your Excellency’s obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 SIR, Head- Quarters, Bojlon , Jan. 3, 1778, 
 
 I RECEIVED, the laft evening, per exprefs, a refolve of 
 the honourable Congrefs, of the 19th ult. directing “ That 
 the accounts of all provisions and other neceflaries which al- 
 ready have been, or which hereafter may be, fupplied by the 
 public to prifoners in the power of thefe ftates, fhall be dif- 
 charged, by either receiving from the Britifh commiflary of 
 prifoners, or any of his agents, provifions or other neceflaries, 
 equal in quality and kind to what have been fupplied, or the 
 amount thereof in gold or fllver, at the rate of four (hillings 
 and flxpence fterling for every dollar of the currency of thefe 
 ftates, and that all thefe accounts be liquidated and difeharged 
 previous to the releafe of any prifoners to whom provifions 
 or other neceflaries fhall have been fupplied.” 
 
 This refolve is prefaced upon Sir William Howe’s requi- 
 fition for provifions to be fent in for the fubfiftence of the 
 American prifoners in his poffeflion, and for the purchafe of 
 fuch neceflaries as they ftand in need of, and the fraudulency 
 
 of 
 
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 CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 l ' 
 
 of thofe who have counterfeited the continental bills of cre- 
 dit, large fums of which have been iffued. 
 
 I am alfo direfted to fee “ that all accounts with you are 
 fettled and fully paid, in the fame manner, before the em- 
 barkation of yourfelf, or other officers and troops included 
 
 in the Convention of Saratoga. 
 
 I thought it my duty to give your Excellency the earlieit 
 intimation of this order, that you may take fuch fteps as may 
 be neceflary for the fettlement of the accounts, which cannot 
 be fettled by me in any other way than as above directed. 
 
 I am 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 Moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. Heath. 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , Jan. 4, 1778. 
 
 YOUR letter, dated yefterday, is only now come to hand. 
 Mr. Gedd es attends for your pafTport. 
 
 Though 1 do not pretend to fee all that may be meant in 
 the refolve you tranfmitted me, there is certainly nothing in 
 the words of it which implies the conftruaion you put in re- 
 gard to my perfonal embarkation. 
 
 As to your allotment of a 44 convenient tranfport for 
 my pafTage, if it is from yourfelf, I am to thank you, Sir, 
 for a fort of infult which the moft haughty man of office 
 would be afhamed of in any other country. 
 
 However, as I am determined every tranfa&ion concerning 
 this Convention fhall be notorious, and beyond the power of 
 fubterfuge to explain away, I have directed the frigate, toge- 
 ther with the tranfports, to come round, and it will then he 
 for you. Sir, to prohibit the entry of Bofton harbour to any 
 fhips bearing a flag of truce, and declaring they are fent ior 
 the exprefs purpofe of conveying to Great Britain any part of 
 
 the troops of the Convention. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 To Maj. Gen. Heath. 
 
 SIR, Head- Quarters, Bofton , Jan. 5, 1778. 
 
 YOUR Excellency’s favour of yefterday came duly to 
 hand, and I muft confefs I was not a little furprifed at fome 
 expreftions in it. 
 
 As, by the Convention, tranfports only are fripulated to re- 
 ceive the troops, I fubmitto you, Sir, whether a hint (if you 
 were even fure that it came from me) that you mould ta-ce a 
 
 d convenient 
 
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 convenient one, rather than introduce a frigate, which is nei 
 ther exptefled or implied in the Convention, merits thofe epi 
 thets which you are pleafed to beftow on me. 
 
 1 have ever meant to treat you with politenefs ; and the 
 plighted faith and honour of my country require me to pay 
 ftriX attention to the Convention on their part ; of cou r fe, 
 when tranfports arrive to receive the troops, they will en- 
 ter the harbour •, and if you can find by the Convention that a 
 frigate is to enter for the particular reception of \ourlelf, fhe 
 will not be prohibited ; but if it is rather uncommon for 
 (hips of w'ar to bear flags of truce, and confentingto it in the 
 prefent cafe fhould appear rather to be an aX of politenefs 
 and geuerofity than otherwife, I leave you to your own re- 
 flexion, whether you have made choice of the moft happy 
 expreflluns to obtain it. 
 
 1 am 
 
 Your Excellency’s obedient fervant, 
 
 Lt. Gen. Lurgoyne . W, Heath* 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , "Jan. 5, 1778. 
 
 HAVING confidered the refolution ot tne Congreis, which 
 you tranfmitted to me in your lefer of January 3, relpeX- 
 ing the payment of provifions ; I have alfo attended to the 
 fubfequent paragraph, wherein you inform me vou are di- 
 rected to fee ail accounts with me fettled and fully paid, in 
 the fame manner as refolved in cafe of prifoners, before the 
 embarkation of myfelf. or other officers and troops included 
 in the Convention of Saratoga, can take place. 
 
 I am decided in my fentiment, that, fhould this refolve 
 and direction be put in execution, the Convention will be 
 grofsly violated in three feparate articles, viz. articles the 2d 
 and 4th, by which the troops have an unconditional right to 
 a free paflage, and without delay, whenever (hips arrive to 
 receive them ; and in article 5th, wherein it is ftipulated, the 
 troops (hall be fuppiien with rations at the fame rate with Ge- 
 neral Gates’s own army. 
 
 It is undeniable this rate is entirely altered by the mode 
 now prefcribed for the payment. 
 
 Theimpreffions which a violation of public faith never fail 
 to make upon the word, and the confequences that inevitably 
 enfue, in all political negotiations, when charaXer and con- 
 fidence, as required, would be ample revenge to Great Bri- 
 tain, and the individuals concerned, for the temporary incon- 
 venience 
 
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 venience that an undue detention in this country would oc- 
 Caflon. 
 
 Neverthelefs, being defirous to prove that I am neither rafh 
 nor vindictive upon this fubjedt, I am willing to unite with 
 you in any meaiure that may ftill prevent evils of the mod 
 fermus nature; for this pu'pofe, I defire you to furnifh a 
 paflport to fuch officer as I fhall appoint, to proceed to Gene- 
 ral Gates, who, 1 am informed, is now with the Congrefs. 
 
 Bearing full in memory what were the fentiments of that 
 effi'er, not Only in regard to the intent and meaning of the 
 ftipulations of the treaty, but alfo in regard to the duty, com- 
 pleatly, and liberally to fulfil them, it may be a fortunate 
 circumftance for all parties that he is nowon the lpot where 
 he can give his own explanation, and thereby fave a treaty, 
 in which his perfonal honour is blended with that of the 
 date, and in which, in confcience, I believe he never meant 
 infraction or prevarication. 
 
 It might likewife very much conduce to conciliatory mea- 
 fures in paffing the accounts, if a paflport was granted to Mr. 
 Clarke, adting commiJUry-general, to proceed to General 
 Howe, in order to lay before him the account ftated by your 
 commiflary, and to receive his pleafure thereupon ; the refolve 
 of the Congrefs, according to your letter, being prefaced upon 
 a requifition of his Excellency. 
 
 I wilh to have your anfweras foon as poffible, and that you 
 would detain your meflenger till you hear from me in return 
 to th.it anfwer. 
 
 1 have made thefe propofals upon a juft, and what I think 
 a generous, principle, and upon a fuppofition that, by the 
 chances of the feafon, full anfwers may return from the fouth 
 in time to prevent difputes ; but I muft not be underftood as 
 precluding myfelf from what I hold my duty, fhould fhips 
 arrive fooner, viz. to demand means for immediate embarka- 
 . feion. I am, S 1R, &c. 
 
 YOUR favour of yefterday I duly received, and note the 
 contents. It is my decided fentiment, that the articles to 
 which you refer to prove that the Convention is violated by 
 the late refolution of the honourable Continental Congrefs 
 are not the point, as it has no tendency to caufe an undue 
 detention of yourfelf and troops ; it only requires the pay- 
 ment of juft debts. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 J. Burgoyne. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Head-Barters^ Boflon, Jan. 6, 1778. 
 
 d 2 
 
 Thefe 
 

 
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 Thefe independent ftates, I prefume, are not infenfible of 
 the importance of that character which depends upon the 
 ftri&eft regard to public faith, and I allure myfelf that they 
 never have, nor ever will be guilty of the leaft infringement 
 of it. 
 
 I am content that an officer of yours mould proceed to Ge- 
 neral Gates, and will furnifh him with a paflport for the 
 
 purpofe, 
 
 Mr. Clarke may alfo have my permiffion to proceed to 
 
 ©eneral Howe. 
 
 But as you conceive it to be your duty, fhould the tran- 
 sports arrive in the interim, “ to demand means for imme- 
 diate embarkation,” you will pleafe to obferve, that on my 
 part I fEall alfo demand, previous to fuch embarkation, the 
 fettlement and payment of all accounts, agreeable to the or-, 
 ders of the Congrefs. 
 
 I am, SIR, 
 
 Your Excellency’s obedient fervant, 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath, 
 
 SIR, January Jtb, 1778. 
 
 IN confequence of your letter of yeflerday, confenting to 
 the propofals made by me of difpatcning an officer to Gene- 
 ral Gates, and Mr. CommifFary Clarke to his Excellency Ge- 
 neral Howe, I have direffed Mr. Clarke to prefs your com- 
 miffary to deliver in his account ; and I beg the favour of you 
 to 2dd fuch orders as may prevent delays. The officer is alfo 
 preparing for his journey, and I fhould hope both thefe gen- 
 tlemen will be ready to fet out on Friday next. 
 
 I am, SIR, &c. 
 
 Maj , Gen. Heath . J. Burgoyne. 
 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , Jan. 7, 1778. 
 
 M. GEN. Reidefel has requefted me to apply to you for per- 
 miffion to Captain Willoe, who has acted as his aid de camp du- 
 ring thecampaign,to return to Canada, where his regimentnow 
 is, but upon his parole not to a£t until exchanged. This gentle- 
 man is captain in the 8th regiment Britifh, and it would be 
 much more convenient to his private affairs to pafs fome time 
 in that country than to return to Britain. I imagine, Sir, 
 this application cannot be attended with difficulty, as Captain 
 Willoe, belonging to the army in Canada, had a right, by the 
 Convention, to return thither, and the only reafon he did not 
 
 4 make 
 
 
 
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 make ufe of it at the time others did was, that he thought 
 it an attention to General Reidefel to accompany him to 
 Cambridge. 
 
 I am, S1K, 
 
 Your moll obedient fervant, 
 
 > May. Gen. Heath. J. Burgoyne. 
 
 g j r Head Reiners, Bofton , Jan.%th^ 177^* 
 
 YOUR’ two favours of yefterday I have juft received, I 
 find your Excellency was mifinformed as to General Gates s 
 being at Congrefs, he was not at the time of m y laft in- 
 telligence, and whether he is now at Albany or Fifh Hill 
 l cannot fay ; you will therefore pleafe to determine what 
 rout the officer who is dire&ed to him fhall take, an °®S er 
 of mine will attend him, and another will attend Mr 
 Clarke, who muft firft wait upon his Excellency General 
 Wafhington before he goes into Philadelphia. Th„ officers 
 muft give their fpecial paroles, and all letters and papers be 
 examined before they fet out— whether it will be moft pro- 
 per for Mr. Clarke to carry the original accounts, or du- 
 plicates of them is for your determination ; but fhould tranl- 
 ports arrive to-morrow, the accounts, as I have obferved 
 in a former letter, muft be fettled and paid before you 
 
 Cm ^mention this that you may not be embarraffed fhould 
 Mr. Clark be abfent with the original accounts. , 
 
 As I am not quite clear with reipeft to Captain Willoe > 
 requeft, I cannot now give iny anfwer thereto. 
 
 ^ I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 i y; , '/' • 
 
 g j ^ Cambridge , Jan. 8 th, I77^» 
 
 I HAVE your letter of to-day, and have no objection 
 to the officer and Mr. Clarke giving the parole you require. 
 I am furprizecl you fhould again repeat the matter relating 
 to the payment of accounts previous to embarkation, who 
 notwithftanding my requifitions to younelf, and repeated 
 through Colonel Henly, I cannot yet obtain a ftate ox the 
 demands you have againft the troops Ox the Convention. 
 
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 I fhall wave giving any anfwer to this at prefent* when 
 the Hups arrive I fhall know what to demand, and you will 
 judge what you are to refufe. 
 
 Mr. Clarke fhall be diredted to take the duplicates of the 
 accounts, which I fhould hope might be very foon made 
 out, without creating any further delays, and that he and 
 the officer might fet out on their journies the day after to- 
 morrow. 
 
 I am, 
 
 JIT. G . Heath. 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 
 J. Burcoyne. 
 
 SI R, Head Quarters, Lofton, Jan. 2 th, 1778. 
 
 . MR. Blodget has complained to me of having three build- 
 ings fituate on Winter Hill, and his property, demolifhed 
 and carried off by fome of the foreign troops who are in 
 barracks on that hill, and the documents which he wi l lay 
 before you, will be convincing that his complaint is not ill 
 founded : I am therefore as the fervant and guardian of the 
 public, to lecommend it to your Excellency to pay that at- 
 tention to Mr. Blodget’ s reprefentation, which the confi- 
 derable lofs he has met with intitles him to, and I doubt 
 not your Excellency will afford him the redreis which ju- 
 Itice requires. • 
 
 I T * 
 
 1 am, 
 
 * 
 
 \ our Excellency’s 
 
 moll obedient fervant. 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. 
 
 W. 
 
 Heath. 
 
 A T* FPOR t t, 1 t Cam } r ^ge, Jan.^th, 1778. 
 
 *■ CK f has been made to me of a diflurbance which 
 
 happened at the barracks Wednesday afternoon, for which I 
 am much concerned; and though the provocations from your 
 ioldiers which originally produced it, were of the molt atro- 
 cious natuie, 1 was defirous the offender on our part fhould 
 be properly punifhed (the fufpe&ed perfon was confined ac- 
 cordingly) but Colonel Henley thought proper to make pri- 
 loners eighteen innocent men, and to rejeft the guilty one. 
 
 ? he ]nnoce , nt me “ are fent on board guardlhips, as alledged 
 by your order. r a 
 
 It is. not only a duty to my fituation to demand the im- 
 
 wedl,te ^charge of thefe men, together with a fatisfaSory 
 
 apology. 
 
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 apology, but I alfo mean it as an attention to you, Sir, 
 that I give you an immediate opportunity to difavow fo 
 unjuftifiable a proceeding, as committing men to the worft 
 of prifons upon vague report, caprice, and paflion. 
 
 lnfults and provocations, at which the moft placid difpofi- 
 tions would revolt, are daily exercited by your troops agai nil 
 the officers and loldiers of this army — regular, decent com- 
 plaints are received by your officers fometimes with haugh- 
 tinefs, fometimes with derifion, but always without redrefs. 
 Thefe evils flow, Sir, from the general tenor of language 
 and of conduct held by Colonel Henley, which encourages 
 his inferiors, and feems calculated to excite them to the moft 
 bloody purpofes. 
 
 For want of iufhcient information, and not bringing my- 
 felf to believe it poffible the fails as related by common 
 report could be true, I have hitherto declined taking public 
 notice of this man. But upon pofitive ground I now, and 
 hereby, formally accuie Colonel Henley of behaviour hei- 
 noully criminal as an officer, and unbecoming a man, of 
 the moft indecent, violent, vindiifive feverity againft un- 
 armed men, and of intentional murder. 
 
 I demand prbmpt and latisfaitory juftice, and I will not 
 doubt your readinefs to give it. Whenever you will inform 
 me a proper tribunal is appointed, i will take care that 
 undeniable evidence fhall be produced to fupport the above 
 charges, 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, See. 
 
 jTo Major Gen. Heath, J. Burgo YNE. 
 
 SIR, Head Quarters, Bofion , Jan. gth, 1778. 
 
 IT is with no fmall concern mat I inform your Excellency 
 of the abufive behaviour of the Britifh (bldiery towards 
 the guards and centinels at Prolpeft Hill, which has for 
 fome time been increafing, and has at length arrived at a 
 height no longer to be borne. Sentries have been repeatedly 
 infulted on their pofts, and at ioine times beat and difarmed 
 (this I muft confefs reflects difhonour on themfelves, for a 
 fentry is never to allow himlelf to be infulted or ahul'ed) 
 prifoners have been frequently refeued from the guards, and 
 the behaviour of the foidiery mutinous and dilorderly in the 
 extreme, of which there was a moft fingular inftance the 
 
 night 
 
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 night before laft — a number of the rioters are fent on board 
 the prifon fhip. 
 
 As your Excellency informed me foon after your arrival, 
 that you would do all in your power to prelerve order 
 among the troops, I muft call upon you, Sir, to exert your- 
 felf for that purpole; for if the prefent diforderly behaviour 
 of fo many of the foldiery continues, the conlequences will 
 be ferious, for the guards and lentries fhall no longer be 
 intuited. 
 
 A moft fcandalous practice of counterfeiting paffes has 
 lately been detected, I muft defire you would enquire into 
 the matter, or the innocent will unavoidably fuffer incon- 
 veniences. 
 
 A lentry was knocked down the night before laft, and 
 * his firelock carried off. I expe£t that effectual meafures 
 will be taken for the return of the firelock immediately ; I 
 muft defire your attention, Sir, to this matter. 
 
 I have this moment received your favour of yefterday ; 
 I have repeatedly direfted the Commiffary to ftate his ac- 
 counts. He has been endeavouring to compleat them, but 
 has been delayed on account of fome bills in the hands of 
 fome of the purchafers of cattle who are at fome diftance. 
 1 have ordered him again to complete them, being as anxious 
 as your Excellency for their adjuftment. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Bur goyne, W. Heath. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I HAVE to acknowledge the receipt of the fubftance of 
 the examination of a German confined for drawing his fword 
 on a fentinel of our army; it was not in my power to an- 
 fwer it yefterday. As I have General Heath’s order not to 
 approve of any puniffiment for crimes againft our troops or 
 the inhabitants, but to confine them on board guardfhips, fo 
 fhall 1 obey thole orders. 
 
 D. Henley. 
 
 Cambridge, ybjan. 1778. Commanding Officer. 
 
 SIR, 
 
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 SIR, Head Quarters t Bojlon , Jan. IC )ih, 1778. 
 
 YOURS of yefterdayY date I received the laft evening. 
 What provocation you allude to, as having been offered by 
 my troops, I am at a lots to determine.; the iniults and 
 a'oufes which they have received, I will venture to lay, un- 
 lefs I have been moft grollly mi fin formed, are unparalleled, 
 and whether you are willing or unwilling, Sir, offenders 
 lb all no longer pal's with impunity. 
 
 If it can be made to appear, that any of thofe foldiers 
 fent to the guardfhip by my orders are innocent, they fhall 
 be releafed from their confinement. But with refpeft to fuch 
 as have been guilty of violating my {landing orders of the 
 garrifon, inftead of difavowing or making any apology for 
 the confinement of fuch, be allured, Sir, that I do moft ex- 
 plicitly avow it. 
 
 And as I have before obferved to your Excellency in a 
 former letter, of which you may be allured, I fhall at all 
 times endeavour to found my orders upon the principles of 
 « honour, realon, and juftice, and not to infringe thofe 
 delicate principles in others;” lo alio be allured, that 
 fuch my orders fhall be obeyed by every officer and foldier 
 placed under my direction, and fuch as have the hardinels to 
 tranfgrels them fhall abide the confequences. 
 
 I have been informed of late that fome have hinted 
 that fuch of your troops as break my orders, ought to be 
 tried and punifhed by your orders; even the mention of 
 fuch a thing, Sir, I conceive to be (to ufe your own words 
 in a late letter with a little variation) a fort of infult that a 
 man of military erudition in any country, would be afhamed 
 of, as being repugnant to every idea of militaiy difeipline; 
 and from my opinion of your military knowledge, I cannot 
 
 admit than you ever hinted it. 
 
 To convince you that it is my fixed determination to en- 
 quire into all abufes, whether committed by my ovvn troops 
 or thofe of the Convention, whilft they remain within my 
 department, I have ordered Colonel Henley under aireft, 
 and appointed a court of enquiry, whereof Brigadiei Geneial 
 Glover is prefident, to examine into the grounds of your 
 complaint, on Wednefday next at ten o’clock, A. M. at 
 Cambridge; and if any complaints have heretofore pafied 
 unredreffed, it is becaufe they have not been laid before me. 
 
 You hinted to me when 1 had the pleafure of feeing you 
 laft at Cambridge, that one of my officers had been en- 
 
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 ticlng fome of the troops of the Convention to enter our 
 fervice. I then informed you, that if you would fend the 
 complaint, I would immediately bring the officer to trial. 
 You promifed to do it; but I have not as yet received it. 
 I now call upon you, Sir, to exhibit that charge, c . any 
 other that you have to make againft any officer under my 
 command, for pra&ices of that kind, or any other, being 
 with yourfclf determined, <c that all my conduct reflecting 
 the Convention fnall be notorious, and beyond the powers 
 of fubterfuge to explain away.” 
 
 Complaints of moll enormous abufes have lately been made 
 to me. One, of the conduct of a number of officers on the 
 evening or night of the 25th of December laft at Bradifhes’ 
 tavern; others, ot perfons being refeued from the guards — 
 fentries abuied and intuited on their poll — paffes counter- 
 feited, and others filled up in the 1110ft affrontive manner, 
 aud of late feveral highway robberies committed in the en- 
 virons of the garrifon; one the laft evening, in which a 
 gentleman was robbed of between leven and eight hundred 
 dollars, and a watch. The robberies I do not charge on 
 your people, as it is unknown who were the perpetrators, 
 but there are feveral reafons to fufpeft it. 
 
 All theft, Sir, tend not only to exaiperate the troops, 
 but to eniage the inhabitants of the country, who view luch 
 abutes as uni uffe table. I therefore call upon you to exert 
 youi endeavouis to luppreis all abufes as far as in your 
 power. I am, J 
 
 S I R, 
 
 . Your obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 . , , Cambridge, Jan. 12th, 1778, 
 
 l HAY L. the favour of your letter January 10th, you 
 are pleated to enter into much recrimination, which I fhall 
 -anfwer apart, becaufe I am not to be diverted by collateral 
 matter from the great point depending between us refpedlino- 
 Colonel Henley’s conduft. 0 
 
 The flight and indifferent manner in which you take up 
 matters of fuch magnitude, makes me apprehenfive I was 
 deficient in my former attempt to ftate it clearly ; as expla- 
 natory therefore of the original words of my complaint, I 
 now add that I accufe Colonel Henley (by your appoint- 
 ment the late commanding officer of the Provincials^ at Cam* 
 
 bridge) 
 
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 bridge) of unprovoked, unmanly, wanton feverity ; of wilful, 
 deliberate, and malicious bloodfhed in the feveral inftances 
 wherein he made himfelf party, judge, and executioner ; and 
 thefe charges I have already pledged mylelf to prove upon 
 inconteftible evidence. 
 
 Is it poflible, Sir, that after comprehending and confi- 
 dering thefe allegations, you can ferioufly mean to put me 
 off by a court of enquiry, in which neither the judges nor 
 the witnefles are under the obligation of an oath ? A court 
 of enquiry, if I have any underftanding of fo plain, exprefiive 
 a term, is applicable only to cafes of doubt and fulpicion. 
 It a£ts upon a principle of commendable jealoufy, left 
 public juftice fhould be eluded, and its bufinefs is to in- 
 veftigate reported, fuppofed circumftantial faCts, in order 
 to determine whether there is matter for folemn trial — 
 but was it ever heard of in martial law or cuftom, when a 
 profecutor flood forth and bound himfelf to adduce pofltive 
 evidence to the matter of charge, that any intermediate in- 
 queft was necelfiiry like a grand jury to find a bill ? If you 
 adopt fuch doCtrine, and proceed upon fuch analogy you 
 will at leaf!:, Sir, reflect that to make it hold, the court 
 rnuft firft examine upon oath, and next hear witnefles only- 
 ex parte on the fide of the profecution. 
 
 Weigh this matter more deeply, it is not the advice of 
 an enemy I give you. The injury requires an immediate 
 example ; to delay juftice longer than may be neceflary for 
 regularity and folemnity of proceeding, is at all times a 
 dilhonour to government, but what will that procrafti nation, 
 be efteemed which combined with the ferment of party, 
 malicious fuggeftions, and falfe fufpicions, tends to excite 
 men to horrid and extenfive maflacre of thofe whom it is 
 their duty to guard. We are here under the fanCtion of a 
 truce, and the public faith is pledged for our fafe conduCt; 
 by the univerlal law of nations we have p right to perfonal 
 protection— among generous ones, we fhould have found 
 hofpitality. 
 
 Upon this right, and in the name of the State of Great 
 Britain, I proteft againft a court of inquiry, as inadequate, 
 dilatory, and nugatory, and demand a court martial pro- 
 perly conftituted for criminal jurifdiCtion in cafes of the molt 
 atrocious nature, to pafs judgment upon the conduft of Co- 
 lonel Henley. 
 
 Major Gtn. Heath, 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 e 2 
 
 J. Burcoyne. 
 
 SIR,. 
 
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 „ S I R, Head Quarters, B often, Jan. l$th, 1778. 
 
 \ OL rlS of this elate I received by Colonel Lee; upon 
 the receipt of your complaint againft Colonel Henley, I 
 immediately ordered him under arreft, and appointed a court 
 of enquiry, compofed of judicious officers, to examine into 
 the grounds of your complaint. And although you may 
 view a court of enquiry as inadequate, dilatory, and nuga- 
 tory, it has been the firft ftep commonly taken in our army ; 
 and indeed is no more than a delicacy due to the character 
 of an officer, efpecially one who has the command of a 
 port. 
 
 You may be allured that whilft you remain here under 
 the fandion of a truce, as you are intitled to, l'o you fhall 
 enjoy peifonal proteftion. And I will venture to fay* 
 as much generoiitv and hofpitality may be found in my 
 country as in any, and I will add more than in fbmo 
 
 others, if we may judge from the treatment of the unfor- 
 tunate. 
 
 I a ns. 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 1 1 Wm vV Cambridge, Jan. lyh, 1778. 
 
 HAVING confined myfelf in the letter tranl'mitted to 
 vcm yefterday entirely to the profecution of Colonel Henley, 
 ! na\ e now to take notice of the other matters contained 
 in your favour of the 10th inftant. You ftate, Sir, that 
 the intuits and abufes offered to your troops have been un- 
 paralleled, “ tin lefs you have been groffly mifinformed.” Con- 
 hder the charter and conduct of Colonel Henley, from 
 whom I am to luppofe your reports have come, and then 
 fay whether you have not reafon to fufpe& mihnformation; 
 nor is he the only perfon to impofe upon you, Cambridge 
 and Loiton aoound with ill-deligning men, wffio propagate 
 calumny in order to colour perlecution ; the whole air is 
 contaminated with lies. Beware, Sir, of fuch reporters, they 
 are your enemies as well as mine; they ftrike at the cha'- 
 i.ic.er of your otate. The difference of our conduft gives 
 me a right to make this expoflulation; when I complain, 
 
 a .cr pi oof of tae grievance — you recriminate upon hear- 
 ia\ . 1 
 
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 You next inform me, Sir, that if it can be made appear 
 that any of the fokliers lent to the guardlhips by your order 
 are innocent, they (ball be releafed. 
 
 By what means lhall we make innocence appear, when 
 men are dragged to imprifonment at a long difiance, and. 
 without any poffibility of appeal or communication of their 
 cafe? 
 
 In the prefent inftance however, I take you at your word; 
 innocence {hall appear, and you lhall be the judge. Eigh- 
 teen men are under confinement for an iniult, in w 7 hich 
 one man alone was concerned : this is an und;fputed fa£t. 
 It neceflarily follows to phyfical demonllration, that feven- 
 teen are innocent. Now fhew me upon what principle you 
 detain them; implicitly avow 7 the a£l, and refute to make an 
 apology. 
 
 You treat with lingular contempt the idea that fuch of 
 the troops of the Convention as break your orders ought 
 to be tried and punifhed by mine. In the firft place, Sir, 
 though my poor military erudition mult be brought to lhame 
 in vour opinion, I mult avow that idea, and with all due 
 refpedl to your erudition, I mull next requeft, that if you 
 again quote my words, you will do fo without violation or 
 amendation. 1 do contend that to commit offenders to the 
 punilhment of their own officers in the firft inftance, and 
 in every cafe that will allow it, is confonant to reafon and 
 juftice ; I do not mean to deny that if, upon experience, it 
 was found we were partial in our judgments, or in our 
 punilhments, you have a right to take juftice into your 
 hands; but you ought at the fame time to remember that 
 you make yourlelf relponfible to God and man that the inno- 
 cent do not fuffer. 
 
 X do allure you it never was my intentipn to let drop the 
 complaint for which you call upon me againft your officers, 
 for inlifting men into your fervice. I inclofe you copies of 
 agreement and a certificate of a mufter mailer ; I have the 
 originals ready if you require them. 
 
 To the pofitive teftimony in thefe few cafes, I could add 
 the ftrongeft circumftantial proof, that till very lately the 
 practice was publicly countenanced by your officers in ge- 
 neral. n . . 
 
 I add. Sir, the cafe of Mr. Defchambeau, as Hated in 
 a letter to me, and the depofition of Lieutenant Wilkin- 
 ion, concerning the affault committed on him on Thurfday 
 
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 APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 Iaft; and I can colled many other enormities of the fame 
 fort. 
 
 I come now to the laft paragraph of your letter, in which 
 you recapitulate and fum up all abufes, riots, refcues, in- 
 i'ults, See. that you are informed have been committed by 
 thefe troops, and you conclude with a fufpicion of highway 
 robbery. It might have been more decent, Sir, to have left 
 that infinuation to your printers in Bolton, and indeed it 
 vyould have better anfvvered your purpofe, for I obferve in 
 the paper of yelterday it is not fufpeded, but boldly and 
 pofitively afferted that the robbery of Mr. Hopkins was by 
 three regular foldiers. 3 
 
 My anfvver to all this is that molt of the accufations are 
 falfe, others are exaggerated, and none are countenanced by 
 me. 1 hat there have been levities, indilcretions, faults of 
 omilfion, of negled, and of liquor, I am ready to believe • 
 but I have never fpared my efforts to corred them and 
 they have been pretty well atoned by the beating, impri- 
 fonment, and death, received at the hands of your people. 
 
 Upon the whole, it is with fatisfadion and pride I refled 
 that weie all thefe complaints verified and compounded into 
 one mals, they {toll would not, from their nature, weieh a 
 feather in the eltimation ol jultice, againlt the articles of 
 grievance in the oppofite lcale. 
 
 I am. 
 
 Major Gen. Heath . 
 
 SIR, 
 
 ^ our moft obedient fervant, 
 
 J. Burcoyne. 
 
 Articles of agreement for a mufician to ferve in Colonel 
 Uee’s regiment. 
 
 Captain Marfden of the Provincials iniiftment of Britifh 
 foldiers under the Convention. 
 
 Mufter mailer’s certificate. 
 
 AlTault upon Mr. Defchambeau unredrefled. 
 
 Alfault upon Captain Swettenham. 
 
 Inlult committed on Lieutenant Wiikinfon unredreffed 
 
 innocent! ° n b ° ard * S uardflli P who can be proved 
 
 Januiny "' ith the kUer ^ t0 Gene,al H catb, 30th 
 
 LIEU- 
 
I 
 
 CANADA PAPERS. xxxix 
 
 LIEUTENANT General Burgoyne has direfted me to 
 alk on his part the following queftions of this court of en- 
 quiry. 
 
 ift, Are the members under the obligation of an oath ? 
 
 2d, Are the witneffes fworn ? 
 
 3d, Is this court only to examine the matter of charge, 
 or does it enter into the defence of the perfon accufed ? 
 
 4th, Lieutenant General Burgoyne protefts againft any 
 decifion of a court of enquiry being final, and has only di- 
 rected the witneffes to attend in compliance with what he is 
 informed is the cuftom with the American troops, viz. to 
 hold courts of enquiry in all cafes previous to trials, and 
 he hereby declares that whatever may be the iffue of the 
 prefent court of enquiry, he perlifts in his demand of a re? 
 gular trial in a court of criminal jurifdiCtion. 
 
 5th, I am alfo directed by Lieutenant General Burgoyne 
 to requeft a copy of the proceecings of this court of enquiry.. 
 
 Cambridge , Jan. 14th, 1778. 
 
 IN anfwer to the firft queftion of General Burgoyne— 
 The court anfwer, they are not. 
 
 To the fecond — The court anfwer, the witneffes are not. 
 
 In anfwer to the third — The court anfwer, both. 
 
 To the fourth — The court are of opinion they have nothing 
 to do with any proteft of General Burgoyne — but are bound 
 to follow the order of General Heath, founded on a cuftom 
 of the American army, which countenances courts of en- 
 quiry in fome cafes which the commanding officer is the foie 
 judge of. 
 
 The concluding requilition of General Burgoyne will be 
 complied with as a matter of courfe, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 J. Glover, Brigadier General, Prefident. 
 
 SIR, Headquarters, Bo ft on, Jan. 14th, 1778. 
 
 THE probability that tranfports will arrive foon to receive 
 the troops of the Convention, the apparent propriety of the 
 meafure ; the ftmilar conduct of the Britifli commanders 
 towards fuch of our troops as have fallen into their hands, 
 before they are permitted on parole to return home, and my 
 expectation that the honourable Congrefs will direCt it, in- 
 duces me to repeat my call for the names, former place of 
 •; abode 
 
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 abode and occupation, fize, age and defcription of every non- 
 commiffioned officer and private foldier, and ail other per-* 
 fons comprehended in the Convention of Saratoga. 
 
 As Major Mafifaraw is now here, and will take down the 
 names, the objection you before made to Major Brown is 
 obviated. 
 
 YOU will readily believe that it is as painful to me as it 
 can be troublefome to you to find matter of complaint the 
 continual fubjedl of our correfpondence — lam, neverthelefs, 
 under the neceffity of laying before you two reports from 
 'he commiflary general of the Convention troops. I am 
 perfuaded you will take immediate meafures to redrefs that 
 which concerns the badnefs of provifion ; and I hope you 
 will not fpare a reprimand to your commiffiary for making 
 out an account which, I am confident, you meant to be ge- 
 nuine, clear, and conclufive, in a manner that will appear 
 to any impartial perfonus purpofely ambiguous, and defigned 
 to leave an opening for dii'putes and to create delays. 
 
 You will confider, Sir, that in waiting for this account, 
 nine or ten days have been already loft fince you confented 
 to Mr. Clarke’s journey to Sir William Howe. 
 
 I will now reduce this matter to a very fliort compafs, and 
 have only to requeft, that you will furnifh me with the price 
 demanded for the ration, fuppoiing it to be paid in gold or 
 filver, and likewise the price of the cord of wood, candles, 
 and other articles not belonging to the ration; and I am 
 willing to leave the quantities received to be fettled by the 
 refpe£t i ve comrni flaries at more leifure. As this cannot pof- 
 iibly require time, I beg the favour of you to prepare paf- 
 ports for Mr. Clarke to let out the day after to-morrow. 
 
 I return you my perl'onal thanks for fending Captain Pi- 
 per here, and affure you no improper life fhall be made of 
 that civility. 
 
 Lieut . Gen. Bur gey nc. 
 
 I am, SIR, 
 
 Your obedient fervant. 
 
 W. He^th 
 
 S I R, 
 
 January 15, 1778. 
 
 To Major General Heath. 
 
 J. Burgoyne* 
 
 SIR, 
 
I 
 
 CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 S I R, Head- Quarters, Bojlon, Jan. 15, 1778. 
 
 YOURS of the 13th initant is before me. If Cam- 
 bridge and Bofton abound with ill-dedgning men, I hope I 
 fhall be able to didinguifh my enemies ; but I can fcarcely 
 believe that one who is frequently beftowing inve&ives, 
 either on my country, its laws, officers, or inhabitants (I 
 need not fay myfelf) can be a friend, and I wifh you, Sir, 
 carefully to avoid fuch expreffions in your letters, unlefs you 
 mean to give offence. . 
 
 ‘ I fhall in a few days appoint a court, of which you fhall 
 have notice, to make proper enquiry into die feveral com- 
 plaints exhibited by you, and fome others founded on more 
 
 than hearfay. . , 
 
 ' The ferjeant who infulted Lieutenant Wilkinfon is under 
 
 guard and will be brought to trial. 
 
 Captain Sweethenham’s cafe will alfo be confidered, for 
 which there is an additional reafon, and I obferve in his 
 complaint, that his abufe was received between ten and ele- 
 ven o’clock at night, going to the barracks, when by his pa- 
 role, facredly given, he was not to be out after nine. 
 
 I am, SIR, 
 
 Your obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. V' • ATH * 
 
 SIR, Head- garters, Bofton , Jan. 16, 1778. 
 
 I RECEIVED your favour of yederday the laft even- 
 ing. I have directed Mr. Miller to repair to Cambridge 
 immediately, in order, with Mr. Clarke, to fatisfy you re- 
 fpefting the dating of his account, which was by no means 
 intended to leave an opening for any difpute, or tocaufe.de- 
 lay, as I am confident Mr. Miller and myfelf are as anxious 
 to have the accounts fpeedily fettled as your Excellency 
 can be. , 
 
 I am exceedingly forry to hear the complaint of thebad- 
 nefs of the flour, and fear it will not be in my power to af- 
 ford that redrefs immediately which is your defire and my 
 wifh— Mr. Miller will alfo acquaint you farther on this 
 head. 
 
 I imagine it will be difficult to fix the price of a ration, 
 or of the cord w r ood, as the price is drifting continually ; 
 our contrafts are not made for any dipulated price ; the 
 commiffaries purchale on the bed terms they can. 
 
 f Mr.. 
 
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APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 Mr. Clark’s paffports fhall be prepared. He mull give 
 bis parole, which will be font up, and all his letters and pa- 
 pers mufl be fent here for infpeftion. I would not have Mr. 
 Clark carry many, if any, letters for officers of the army, 
 as it will take up much time to examine them. Captain 
 Gooch is to attend Mr. Clark. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s obedient fervant, 
 
 W. Heath. 
 
 P. S. Air . Miller now comes in — he is very unwell this 
 morning, and begs that he may be excufed going to Cam- 
 bridge until to-morrow morning. I hope this will not de- 
 lay Air. Clark, at lead more than one day longer. 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne » 
 
 S I R, Cambridge , Jan. 1 7, 1778. 
 
 1 OUR commiffary, Mr. Miller, has met Mr. Commif- 
 fary Clark, and I inclofe you the report made to me in 
 conlequence ol that conference, in order that you may fee 
 whether Mr. Clark has made any miftake, and determine 
 whether you abide by the demand as dated by Mr. Clark. 
 
 1 requed the favour of your anlwer in the courfeof the day 
 and Mr. Clark will be ready to let out to-morrow. If you 
 thought pi ope r to depute any perion at Cambridge to take 
 his parole and examine his letters, which, at your delire, will 
 be very few, it will be an obligation to him, otherwife, he 
 
 u nl vvait upon you at any time you fhall appoint to-morrow 
 morning. 
 
 I lubmit to you, whether it would ndt be a circumdance 
 of convenience and dilpatch for the officer that <r 0 es to Ge- 
 neral Gates to let out with Mr. Clark, if I'o, he lliall alfo 
 wait upon you with his letters and give his parole. 
 
 I take this opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of your 
 favour la u night, repeating your call of the names, fize, age, 
 he. ol the troops of the Convention ; my opinion not be- 
 ing changed, 1 am under the neceffity of referring you to 
 my former letter upon that fubjed, alluring you at the fame 
 time, that if you will point out to me the indances you al- 
 lude to where fimilar demands have been made by Britiffi 
 officers, and complied with, I will give the matte? farther 
 
 confederation 
 
CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 confideration and farther anfwer ; in Canada, I know the cafe 
 was diredtly the reverfe. 
 
 I am, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Maf. Gen . Heath. J. Burgoyne, 
 
 P. S. Since writing the above, Colonel Chace has deli- 
 vered in an account, amounting to 1 3 1 7 5^- ^ s * ( com ~ 
 
 million money at five per cent, included) and he informs me, 
 that he has orders to demand the payment in hard money. 
 I mull defire you to let me know whether this is a determina- 
 tion you mean to abide by. 
 
 Head Quarters, Bojlon, "January 18, 1778. 
 PAROLE, C. Sign. 
 
 THE Court whereof Brigadier General Glover was pre- 
 fident, appointed by the orders ©f the 10th inftant, to enquire 
 into the grounds of a complaint exhibited by Lieutenant Ge- 
 neral Burgoyne, againft Colonel Henley, late commanding 
 officer of the American troops at Cambridge, after mature 
 confideration, are of opinion, that from the evidence otfeied 
 on the fide of General Burgoyne againft Colonel Henley, it 
 will be moft for the honour of Colonel Henley, as well as tor 
 the fatisfadtion of all interefted, that the judgment of a court 
 martial fhould be taken on his condudt, during his command 
 at Cambridge. The General approving the opinion of the 
 court, orders, &c. that a fpecial general court martial fit on 
 Tuefday next, at ten o’clock A. M. at the court Houfe in 
 Cambridge, for the trial of Colonel David Henley, late com- 
 manding officer at that poft, accuied by Lieutenant Gcneial 
 Burgoyne of a general tenor of language and condudt, hei- 
 noully criminal as an officer, and unbecoming a man ; of 
 the moft indecent, violent, vindictive ieverity againft unaimed 
 men, and intentional murder. 
 
 Brigadier General Glover, Prefident, 
 Colonel Wilson, Lieutenant Col. Popkin, 
 
 Colonel M. Jackson, 
 Colonel Lee, 
 
 Colonel H. Jackson, 
 Lieutenant Col. Colman, 
 Lieutenant Col. Badlam, 
 
 Major Curtis, 
 Captain Randall, 
 Captain Langdon, 
 Captain Sew all, 
 Captain Hastings, 
 
 Members, 
 f a 
 
 Lieu- 
 
APPENDIX T 6 • T H E 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Tudor is defired to act as judge advo- 
 cate. All evidences and perfons concerned to attend the 
 Court. 
 
 Extract from general order, 
 
 J. Keith, D. A. G. 
 
 » 
 
 r S I R? Head Quarters, Bojlon , Jan. 18, 1778. 
 
 YOUR, favour of yefterday’s date, came to hand fo late the 
 lsft evening, that it was impracticable to return you an 
 anfwer. All accounts with you, Sir, muft be fettled and 
 paid in manner as is expreffed in my letter of the 3d inftant, 
 as I am explicitly dire&ed fo to fettle them, I beg leave to 
 refer your Excellency to that my letter. 
 
 You will pleafe to fend down, undercover, all fuch letters 
 and papers as are intended to be forwarded by Mr. Clark to 
 Sir William Howe, or others, as I chofe rather to lee them 
 mylelf than refer the inlpe£tion of them to any other officer. 
 
 The letters and papers fliall be returned this evening, if I 
 receive them in feafon, or early to-morrow morning, by° Cap- 
 tain Gooch, who is to accompany Mr. Clark ; I have fent 
 up his parole. His paffport will be fent by Captain Gooch. 
 
 I am content, that the officer who is to proceed to General 
 Gates, ffiould fet out with Mr. Clark. His letters and papers 
 mud be lent down this day for infpe£tion. If vour Excel- 
 lency will pleafe to fend his name, a parole and paflport fhall 
 be fent up. 
 
 That part of your letter, refpe&ing the names and de- 
 lcnptions of the troops, I will anfwer apart, that Mr, 
 Clark may not be detained by lengthening this. 
 
 Colonel Chace’s charging commiffions was unknown tome, 
 and is to be taken out of the account. But as Major Hop- 
 kins, ^and feveral other affiftants in that department, have 
 been foie! y employed in fferving your troops lince at Cam- 
 bridge, i doubt not, but you will think it reafonable that 
 vou lhould pay them. 1 his, however, is a matter of fo lit- 
 tle importance, as not to be worthy of difpute, 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 moft obedient fervaht. 
 
 Lieutenant General Burgoyne, pj E ^ TH< 
 
CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 xlv 
 
 SIR, Headquarters, Bofton , Jan. 1 9, 1 7 78. 
 
 YOUR packet of letters, papers, &c. were handed to me 
 the laft evening per Colonel Keith. I think that the lecond 
 paragraph ot your letter to Sir Vv llliam Howe, does not ftand 
 quite fairly exprefied. You are pleafed to ftate it, that you 
 are to pay the accounts in gold or filver, or yourfelf and 
 troops be detained. I think it would be but juft to have in- 
 ferted or replace the provijions and necejjaries , with which your 
 troops have been /applied, which is the mode, in which 1 inform- 
 ed you, your accounts were to be fettled, and I muft defire 
 you to make that addition in your letter. 
 
 I find among the letters one wrote by Colonel Kingfton to 
 Lord Harcourt, which I have detained. I fhall ever take 
 pleafure in gratifying any officer, when I can do it confiftent 
 with the honour and fafety of my country ; and thofe gen- 
 tlemen who write fhould be very cautious what expreffions 
 they make ufe of! and although the exceptional expreffions 
 in Colonel Kingfton’s letter are rather oblique than direfr, 
 yet they are lb much pointed, that I am not certain whether 
 they do not in fome degree touch his paroie, ol which 1 fhall 
 confider farther. 
 
 As I am informed, your Excellency is defirous that Lieu- 
 tenant J. Vallency fhould go with Mr. Clark, I luppofe they 
 muft be necelfanly detained until to-morrow morning. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieutenant General Bur goyne. W. Heath. 
 
 SIR, Head quarters , Bofton , Jan. 21, 1778. 
 
 THAT part of your letter of the 17th inftant, which re - 
 fpefted the taking the names and deferiptions of the loldiery 
 of the Convention, I informed your Excellency in mine of 
 the 1 8th, I would anfvver apart. 
 
 You are pleafed to oblerve, that in regard to giving the 
 names, fize, &c. &c. your opinion not being changed, you are 
 under the neceffity of referring me to your former letter 
 upon that fubjeft ; but at the fame time allure me, that if I 
 will point out to you the inftances I alluded to, where fimilar 
 demands have been made by Britifh officers, and' complied 
 with, you will give the matter farther confideration and far- 
 
APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 ther anfwer, and then conclude, that 44 in Canada I know the 
 cafe was direftly the reverie.” 
 
 As your Excellency appears inclined to appeal to the con- 
 duff of the officers in Canada, I will give you an inftance, 
 and a recent one too, from that quarter, which, I think, will 
 be fully fufficient without mentioning others. The Ameri- 
 can officers and foldiers, taken by the army under your com- 
 mand at and near Ticonderoga, and fent down to Canada, are 
 now returned home under parole. Their treatment was as 
 follows, which I have from a Captain Walcott of Colonel 
 Marfhall’s regiment. When they got to Quebec, the officers 
 gave their paroles, and dire&ly afterwards they were all fent 
 on board the men of war indiscriminately with the privates, 
 and were told by the officers on board, that they knew no 
 difference between them, as they looked upon the government 
 that made them to be nothing; and before they were fent 
 home, the following delcriptions were taken of the foldiery, 
 viz. their names, the province, county, and town they be- 
 longed to, age, fize, and complexion— officers and men being 
 intermixed together had two thirds’ of a ration per day, with- 
 out diftln&ion. After mentioning thefe inftances, Sir, I 
 hope you will have no farther obje&ion in complying with 
 the requilition fent you, for taking the delcriptions of the 
 troops of the Convention. 
 
 I am. 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 moll obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieutenant Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 S I R> Head Quarters, Bo/ion, Jan. 22, 1778. 
 
 I HAVE repeatedly mentioned to you verbally a jealoufy 
 and uneafineis in the minds of the people, on account of an 
 apprehenlion, that there are in the hands of your officers a 
 number of fulees ; for my own part, I have no apprehenfion 
 of an ill ule being made, of them; but the minds of the 
 people ought moft certainly to be made eafy, which will not 
 be, until they are fatjsfied that the arms are"colle£fcd and de- 
 pofited. 7T.nd as youi Excellency has repeatedly allured me, 
 that they fnould be collected and" put into my hands, I mull 
 defne that it may be done immediately, and would propofe, 
 that a label be fixed to the guard of each piece, with the 
 number, together with the officer’s name, rank, and regiment, 
 which ihaii be entered on a lchedule, the arms then put into 
 
 a ehfeffi. 
 
CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 3 t cheft, and delivered to fuch officer as I fhall appoint. I 
 will give my honour for the return of them/ when the officers 
 refpedtively embark. A copy of the fchedule to be left in 
 the hands of fuch officer as you may order. 
 
 As I conceive this to be but reafonable, I defire a com- 
 pliance may not be delayed. 
 
 I congratulate you, Sir, on the fafe arrival of your mot* 
 ney. See. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieutenant General Bur gey ne. W. Heath. 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , Jan . 24, 1778. 
 
 I SHOULD have anfwered your letters received the day- 
 before yefterday fooner, but the bufinefs of the court martial 
 has taken up my whole time. The officers’ fufees have been 
 ordered in ; they will be fafely kept at my quarters, and I will 
 be refponfible for their not being returned to the officers, 
 while they remain here. Thefe fufees are no part of the 
 public {lores, they are private property, if you make a point 
 of their being given into your cultody, I mull beg a little 
 time to refleSl upon it. 
 
 With refpeSl to the other matter concerning the perfonal 
 deferiptions cf the troops, I muft give it lerious confideration, 
 and I conceive the delay cannot be attended with any dilap— 
 pointment, as any time before the embarkation will equally 
 anfvver the purpofe for which you require. 
 
 I am, 
 
 S 1 R, 
 
 Your moll obedient fervant. 
 
 Major General Heath . J. Burgoyne. 
 
 orr dviTj I ' ' v * ’Tru’fs 
 
 EXTRACT FROM GENERAL ORDERS. 
 
 Head Quarters, Bojlon , Jan. 28, 1 77^* 
 
 COMPLAINT has been made to the General, that fomc 
 of the officers of the Convention have let up a billiard table 
 in an houfe near the centre of the town of Cambridge, and 
 that company is frequently there at very unleafonable hours, 
 to the difquietude and uneafinefs of the inhabitants. The 
 General means not to prohibit innocent diverfions to thole 
 
 officers. 
 
APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 officers, but forbids the exercife of them at thofe hours that 
 difeompofe other/,. 
 
 Ail officers of the Convention are to be at their quarters, 
 and not to be abroad after nine o’clock in the evening, unlefs 
 on lbme very fpecial occafion, and then not without exprefs 
 leave in writing from the commandant of the poft ; ftritt 
 ■obedience is expected .to this order. The patroles are to take 
 up luch as are found contrary thereto, and report them to the 
 commandant, who will tranfmit fuch report to the general. 
 
 J. Keith/D. A. G. 
 
 SIR, Head Quarters, Bojlon, Jan. 30, 177?. 
 
 I SHOULD have anfvvered yours of the 24th fooner, but 
 A multiplicity of bufinefs has prevented. 
 
 As 1 obferved to your Excellency, in mine of the 22d in- 
 ffcanr, that I had no apprehenfion myfelf of an ill ufe beino- 
 made of the officers’ fufees ; but that it was to fatisfy the 
 minds of the people, who were uneafy, that I defired they 
 might be collected and depofited; and although your declaring 
 that you will be refponiible for their not being returned to the 
 officers, while they remain here, w;ould fatisfy myfelf, yet 
 you lb well know mankind, that I need not obferve to you, 
 that it would not fatisfy the people, and I am confident, that 
 it will be both lor the comfort of your mind and my own, 
 to have tnem* depofited, as I propofed to you, and you may 
 be allured, that private property will ever be held moft facred 
 by me. I muft therefore defire, that you would depofit 
 them agreeable to my propofal, as ioon as may be. 
 
 As to the perfonal deferiptions of the troops, I conceive 
 that there is more leilure to take them now, than in the hurry 
 that will naturally arife juft before the troops $m’oark, and I 
 
 fubmit to youjrfelf, whether it will not be lels embarraffino- to 
 you. • .0 - 
 
 I am, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut . Gen . Burgoyne. Heath. 
 
 SIR, Head-Quarters, Bojion , Feb. 4, 17-78. 
 
 INCLOSED is a refolve of the honourable Continen- 
 tal Congrefs, which I received per exprefs the lad evening 
 As this refolve will caufe your continuance with us longer 
 
 than 
 
xlxix 
 
 l 
 
 CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 than was expelled, you may be allured, Sir, that no endea- 
 vours of mine Ihall be wanting to make your lituation as 
 agreeable as peffible. 
 
 I am ^ 
 
 Your Excellency’s moft obedient fervant, 
 Lieut. Gen . Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 [The refolution of the Congrefs, with the papers relative 
 to it, are already printed in the Parliamentary Regifter. See 
 the Debates of the Houfe of Commons for 177 ^’ from P Q Z e 
 204 to Page 217.] 
 
 SIR, February 4, 177 8 - 
 
 I HAVE the favour of your letter, and the refolves of 
 Congrefs inclofed. 
 
 I propofe fending an officer, with a letter to Congrefs, upon 
 the fubjed of thofe refolves, the day after to-morrow, and 
 beg the favour of you to appoint fome officer or other proper 
 perfon to condud him. 
 
 I likewife think it right Lord Howe fhould be acquainted 
 with thefe refolutions, and therefore you will pleafe to name 
 fuch perfon as you think proper to conduct an officer of mine 
 to his Lordlhip with a copy of the refolves, and would wifh this 
 
 gentleman might fet out to-morrow morning. 
 
 I am, SIR, &c. 
 
 May. Gen. Heath. J* 
 
 SIR, Head- Quarters, Bojion , Feb. 4, 177&. 
 
 YOUR favour of this day’s date I have juft received. I 
 have no objection to your fending an officer to Congrefs, and 
 will appoint a perfon to conduct him, agreeable to your re- 
 queft, but fear they will fcarcely be able to proceed fo foon as 
 
 the day after to-morrow. 
 
 I am forrv that I cannot grant your requeft of fending to 
 Lord Howe fo foon as you wifh, as I muft firft certify Congrefs 
 that I have delivered you the refolve, before I confent to your 
 tranfmitting it to anv public officer. 
 
 Your letter to the honourable Meflrs. Hancock and Adams 
 I immediately tranfmitted to them. 
 
 I am, SIR, 
 
 Your moft obedient humble fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen . Burgoyne. ^ 
 
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tr 
 
 I 
 
 APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 T UAUV'UC C Cambridge , Feb. 6, 1778. 
 
 I H A VE the favour of your letter, in which you fay you 
 
 could not furmlh an officer to go with a gentleman from me 
 to Mongrels fo foon as to-day. 
 
 I alk it as a favour of you to expedite that matter, to let 
 me know how foon a gentleman from you will be ready for 
 
 tha E i°. ur " c y- „ , 1 SIR, &c. &c. 
 
 Maj. Gen. Heath . (Signed) J. B. 
 
 'vnTTJ?V r J- h f-t U « rter ^ Fojlon^ Feb. 6, 1 778. 
 
 YOUR favour of this date is juft come to hand. A gen- 
 tleman is now ready, agreeable to your requeft, to attend 
 your officer to Con^refs, and might proceed to-morrow morn- 
 ing ; but, as mv difpatches cannct be compleated, I muft de 
 
 tarn him until Sunday morning, when he fhall proceed as 
 early as you pleafe. r 
 
 You will pleafe to tranfmit me the name of the officer 
 whom you propofe to fend, that a pailport, parole, &c. may 
 be prepared. I am, SIR, j 
 
 T . ^ our obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut, Gen. Burgoync. W. Heath. 
 
 t eJnTTf t> t . ., , Bcjicn , Feb. 6 , 1778. 
 
 i SHOULD not have failed yefterday to have returned an 
 antwer to your letter, which was brought to me the preceding 
 evening, had it not been for the violence of a diforder which 
 nad feized me near a week before j that diforder ftill continues 
 J° ! riucb , a nd prevents my feeing any one but mv phy- 
 
 fic.an or doing any bufinefs, even of the moft trifling nature. 
 
 Under fuch circumftances, you will excufe trie 'if I de- 
 dine to engage with you in converfation upon a fubjed i n 
 vvbich you think the general caufe of humanity, and poffiblr 
 i.ie efTential mterefts of both our countries, are concerned. ' 
 
 I have the honour to be* 
 
 SIR, 
 
 t • . r-' -n Your moft humble fervant. 
 
 Lmtt. urn. Burgoync. $, Adams. 
 
 . -p [ ■, Cambridge , Fob. 7 , 1778 
 
 AT the fame time I received your anfwer, yefterday creaUr 
 -ad anote from Mr. Hancock, that informed me I ihoufd’ 
 
 have 
 
 
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 have the honour of feeing him this day, if his health per- 
 mitted, otherwife on Monday next. I take for granted the 
 badnefs of the weather will make it Monday. Impatient as I 
 am to forward my difpatch to Congrefs, you will readilycon- 
 ceive my wifh to poftpone it till after that interview. My 
 aid decamp, Mr. Wilford, {hall be ready to fet out on Tuef- 
 day morning, and I beg the engagement may hold for that 
 time, at all events. 1 am, SIR, occ. &c. 
 
 Maj . Gen. Heath. J. B, 
 
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 SIR, Head- Quarters, Bojion , Feb. 7, 1778. 
 
 YOUR favour of this date is juft come to hand. I moft 
 readily confent to the poftponing Mr. Wilford’s journey un- 
 til Tuefday morning. 
 
 I ,have this moment received feveral letters from Providence, 
 which I do myfelf the pleafure to inclofe. 
 
 I am, SIR, 
 
 Your obedient humble fervant, 
 Lieut . Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
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 SIR, Head- Quarters, B'flon, Feb. 12, 1778. 
 
 I HAVE juft received a complaint againft a Captain Ather- 
 ton belonging to the troops of the Convention. I am in- 
 formed, fince the complaint was exhibited, that he had de- 
 clared he has not ftgned his parole. I defire to be informed, 
 immediately, why this officer has not figned his parole, after 
 its being left at Cambridge fo long a time, for that purpofe ; 
 and alfo whether there are any other officers belonging to the 
 troops of the Convention who have not given their parole, and 
 the reafon for their negledt. 
 
 I am, SIR, 
 
 Your obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath, 
 
 SIR, Cambridge, Feb. 12, 177^* 
 
 I HAVE received your letter of this day’s date, conceived 
 in terms more abrupt and peremptory that I fhould have ima- 
 gined the occafion required, relative to a complaint to you, 
 not fpecifying of what nature, “ againft a Captain Atherton 
 of the troops of the Convention,” 
 
 I know of no fuch officer in this army as a Captain 
 Atherton. ' 
 
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 If 
 
APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 If you mean Mr. Atherton the provoft, ftiould he not have 
 given his parole, you profefs to have the authority, and, by fa- 
 tal experience, you know you have the means, to punifh any 
 delinquent upon whom you fhall fix or fuppofe a fault. 
 
 I defire to be excufed from giving any reafons why perfons 
 have not figned a parole ; Britifh officers not profeffing to 
 have any controul over the confcience. 
 
 I know of no officers, properly fo called (what the com- 
 miflariate may have done I cannot fay) who have refufed, 
 except the three gentlemen whofe names were left here by 
 Major Sweafy, viz. Captain Jones, Lieutenant Spencer, and 
 Enfign Forfter, of the 24th regiment. I take this occafion 
 to inform you they ftill perfevere in their refufal. The ait 
 is their own, and it is for you to take the courfe you may 
 think proper, 
 
 - Maj. Gen. Heath. (Signed) J. B. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM GENERAL ORDERS. 
 
 Head Quarters , Bo/ion , Feb . 14, 1778. 
 
 A COURT of Enquiry to fit at Cambridge on Monday 
 next, at ten o clock (A. M*) at fuch place as the prefident 
 fhall appoint, to examine, into the grounds of feveral com- 
 plaints which will be laid before them-, in particular, a com- 
 plaint of Mr. William Warren againft Captain Atherton, a 
 Britifh officer, for threatening his perfon, fcandalizing the 
 country, and going beyond the limits alfigned the officers- — 
 The reafon of a foldier of the guards pricking or ftabbing a 
 Brstifh foldier, in attempting to make his efcape, on Saturday 
 the 7th inftant, on Profpecf Hill — A complaint of Lieute- 
 nant Willcinfon of the 62d regiment, Britifh, of abu'fe offered 
 to him on the evening of the 8th ult. by Serjeant Sweat 
 and a party, of Colonel Brooke’s regiment of guards — -A com- 
 plaint of Captain Sweatenham, a Britifh officer, of abufe re- 
 ceived on the 4th of January, going to the barracks, and alfo 
 Oi his conduct towards the fentry near the commiffary’s ffore, 
 and whether he had any fpecial written pemnffion for being 
 out that night after the time ftipulated in his parole for his 
 
 being in quarters And a complaint of Mr. Ephraim 
 
 Mullet againft Enfign Gwin, a Britifh officer, for following 
 him with a drawn bayonet, to be his death, alfo fwearing to 
 »um his father’s houfe, . 
 
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 Colonel GERRisH, Prefident. 
 
 Lieut. Col. Wild, Captain Greenwood, 
 
 Major Gage, Captain Hall. 
 
 Members. 
 
 Captain Waftiburn to aft as Judge Advocate— all evidences 
 
 and perfons concerned to attend the court.. 
 
 J. Keith, D. A. G. 
 
 A copy of this was ftnt 14th February to 
 Major of Brigade Kirkman to com - 
 muni cate to all concerned . 
 
 S X R, Cambridge , March 8 tb> 1/7$. 
 
 HAVING juft now received through your hands, a letter 
 from Captain Dalrymple, commanding the uno frigate, 
 dated Cape Cod Harbour, 4th March 1778, a; A informing 
 me that 8930 tonnage of tranfport is arrived nder his or- 
 ders, to convey the troops of the Convention > England, / 
 requejl to be informed what part you mean to tab. 1 r*gr . to t 
 embarkation. 
 
 I (hall be obliged to you for your an.- - on as 
 
 may be, becaufe in confequence of yc tion I 
 
 (hall defire your affiftance to convey ar - 1 Cap- 
 
 tain Dalrymple. 
 
 Iam, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your mod 0 -t ... rv. ;t. 
 
 To Major Gen . Heath . J* 
 
 SIR, Head Quarters, Boflon , March 8 tb, 1778. 
 
 YOURS of this date is juft come to hand, in which you 
 obferve that 8930 tonnage of tranfport is arrived at Cape 
 Cod under the orders of Captain Dalrymple, defigned to 
 convey the troops of the Convention to England, and requell 
 that I would inform you what part I mean to take in regai d 
 
 to the embarkation. . 
 
 As the honourable Congrefs were pleafed by their relo- 
 lutions of the 8th of January laft (copy of which I did 
 myfelf the honour to tranfmit to your Excellency) fully to 
 determine that matter, I can take no other part than luch 
 as they are pleafed to point out as my duty, to Which 1 
 
 (hall felly conform. Any afliftance in my power in con- 
 J veying 
 

 Yiv 
 
 A.P PENDIX TO 'THE 
 
 Capuin tc moft 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 J 'uui rv, z? mo ^ tumble fervant, 
 
 L.UUU Burpoync. • %i T 
 
 ^ W. Heath. 
 
 f yl , I 
 
 FINDING by yonr-anfw erZ^’ of 
 
 Ei? z^jsm €B£ 
 
 as foon as ^may' bein' iL th fi PaCfet tranfmitted herewith, 
 
 the other by' the exchtiS) offi’” 8 d . u P 1,cates » one by. fea. 
 You will have oKd °f« ^“rf f '° S° by land. 
 
 Me/tfat he has many pri4 t J 1 $*!? 
 army- in^his pofTefEnn • T fa n l/ POr me an <I for the 
 -t^ieih' to be. deliverer! »n "°V Hope* you would permit 
 an impropriety in rn^kinl ^ 1 tbere be 
 
 to pals from {fence ’ but^nr^f ^fpe&ing. letters 
 
 can in our nrefenr rf ? ] ntell lg ence we can receive, 
 
 “ l '° n P° ffi bly affeft the intereft of 
 
 ohKeafion r C *5 ! ? y oar P ower to lay this army under 
 
 sreateft 
 
 ^Whatever may be your determination in this refnedl- T 
 
 =SSM*«dK 
 , • ' ' 
 
 *> • f) p* . : ; T, r 
 
 j . v 1 V. 3 IT} . < f ) ‘ • \ ; r » 
 
 -SIR 
 
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 a/. ^ , Youn moft obedient fervant •- i ? 
 
 WWr. General Heath. T ri™?> . 
 
 , jp --. J* nURGOYXE, 
 
 * 
 
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 It in 
 
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 1 OBSERVED ” 78 ’ 
 
 Cape 
 
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 Cape Cod, and perhaps a large quantity of other provifioni 
 may be on board alto. 
 
 As your Excellency has complained of the high price of 
 provifions here, if it is in your power to take out thofe 
 provifions for the uie of the troops of the Convention, and 
 think, a laving may be made in the expence of fupplies to 
 Great Britain thereby, I ihall have no objedlion to your 
 doing of it, and will afford you as much affiftance as you 
 may Hand in need of to get them up. 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your molt obedient, 
 humble fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgpyne. W. Heath. 
 
 .SIR, Head Quarters, Bojlon , March 16th , 1778. 
 
 IN mine of the 22d January laft, I obferved to your 
 Excellency, as I had done repeatedly before verbally, the 
 jealouly and uneafinefs that iublifted in the minds of the 
 people refpe&ing the officers fuzees, and did therein propofe 
 to you that they fiiould be put into the hands of fuch officer 
 as I fhould appoint to receive them, and pledged my honour 
 that they fhould be fafe kept, and returned to the officers to 
 whom they belong ; you was pleafed to obferve in yours of 
 the 24th of the fame month, that the officers fuzees were 
 ordered to your quarters, and that you would be refponfible 
 for their not being returned to them while they remain here ; 
 and in mine of the 30th, I obferved that fuch a pledge would 
 fatisfy me, but that it would not fatisfy the minds of the 
 people. Their uneafinefs has increafed, and at length led 
 the General Affembly to make a representation to me, by 
 which I am conflrained to defire your Excellency to put 
 them into the hands of Major Pollard, my aid-de-camp, 
 whom I have appointed to receive them in the manner pro- 
 pofed in mine of the 22d January; and I again pledge my 
 honour for the fafe keeping and return of them, agreeable to. 
 my promife in that letter. I affure myfelf that under thefc 
 circumftances you will not hefitate a moment depofiting of 
 them, or think my prefling this matter is in the leaf! un- 
 reafonable. I am. 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 moll obedient fervant, 
 
 W. Heath. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Blent. Gen. Burgoym. 
 

 Ivi APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 SIR, Head ^farters, B'Jlon , March IJth, 1778, 
 
 THE General Alfembly of the State of Maflachufet’s 
 Bay having by their rel'olve of the 13th inftant, expreffed 
 their apprehenfions that there is great reafon to fufpett that 
 iome confiderable part of the troops of the Convention have 
 by fome means fupplied themfelves with fire-arms, and that 
 there is a necefiity that the matter ffiould be immediately' 
 examined into, and fuch mealures purfued as may fecure the 
 lafety of the State in that refpeft. 
 
 In order, therefore, that the requeft of the General Af- 
 fembly may be carried into execution, you will pleafe to- 
 morrow at ten o’clock, A. M. to make a fti-idl fearch in all 
 the barracks occupied by the Britilh and Foreign troops on 
 Profpe& and Winter Hills. If any fuzees belonging to the 
 officers fhould be found in any of the barracks, they are not 
 to be taken away, the officer’s name and rank to whom they 
 belong, and the barrack and room where they are found, are 
 to be taken down in writing ; but if any mufkets are found 
 in the barracks with the private men, they are to be taken 
 into cuftody, and a receipt given to the perfon who claims 
 them, and a fair entry made of the perfon’s name and arms 
 in a book. 
 
 You will pleafe to conduft this matter with great pro- 
 priety and good order ; no intuit or abufe is to be offered. 
 The guaids are to behave in a foldier-like manner, you will 
 order the whole garrifon to be under a-ms on their parades, 
 and fo to remain until the fearch is over. 
 
 Y ou will keep the matter a profound fecret until you 
 have^ made your difpofition for the fearch, you will then wait 
 on General Burgoyne, and acquaint him with your orders, 
 and then proceed and make your fearch. The fearch is to 
 be carefully made in the barracks and fuch places as are moft 
 likely to have arms concealed ; but you are not to fearch 
 
 the baggage. For all which this fhall be your Efficient 
 warrant. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 Lieut. Cd. Keith , D. A. G . W. Heath, M. G. 
 
 LIEUTENANT Colonel Keith, Deputy Adjutant Ge- 
 neral to the Provincials, after fearching all the barracks, 
 made a report to General Burgoyne that there were neither 
 fire-arms nor officers fuzees in any of the barracks occupied 
 
 $ by 
 
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 'by the Englifh troops, and only a few fuzees, about ten, be- 
 longing to the officers in the barracks occupied by the Ger- 
 man troops. 
 
 Cambridge ^ \%tb March , 1778. 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , March^lh. 1778. 
 
 I HAVE the favour of yours of March 16th, refpe&ir.g 
 the delivery of the officers fuzees into your hands, I ac- 
 knowledge that the application has been repeatedly made, 
 and my anfwer has been uniform that a lurrender of this 
 property fhould be made to the public tranquility whenever 
 you made a point of it. Since the 30th January, when the 
 laft letter upon this lubjeft pafled, I really imagined that 
 the people had relumed fufficient confidence in their own 
 ftrength to be free from apprehenfion, and that no perlon 
 would prefs a meafure that marked fo uncommon, and per- 
 mit me to add, as it applies not in the remoteft degree to 
 yourfelf, fo indecent a want of trufl in the parole of the 
 Britifh officers, and particularly of myfelf who had anfwered 
 for the care of them. 
 
 I ftill adhere to my former line of conduft, and whenever 
 Major Pollard or any other officer fhall come to my quarters 
 for this purpofe, they fhall be ffiewn the place where thefe 
 arms are depofited (I think they amount to about forty, 
 rufty and without locks) and I affiure you no obftru&ion 
 fhall be given to their being carried away, but the trouble 
 of marking the leverai officers names will be unneceffary, 
 as I believe no officer means ever to receive them again. 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your rnofl obedient fervant, 
 
 Maj. Gen. Heath. (Signed) J. Burcoyne. 
 
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 SIR, Head Quarters, Eo/ion, March 18 th, 177 ^* 
 
 I HAVE received a refolvc of the two Houles of Affembly 
 of this State, paffied on the 13th inftant, in which is the fol- 
 lowing paragraph, 
 
 << Whereas there is great reafon to fufpefl that fome con- 
 fiderable part of the troops of the Convention have by lome 
 means fupplied themlelves with fire arms, it is therefore 
 neceffiarv inquiry be made thereinto ; it is therefore defired 
 that the Council lignify to General Heath the neceffity of 
 
 h ^at 
 
 *t 
 
appendix to the 
 
 that matter being immediately examined, and luch meafures 
 
 refpea ’’ y h “ n ** may feCUre the fafety of this State in that 
 
 In confcquencre °f the foregoing, I have direfted Lieutc- 
 
 Zm KeUh makc a fcarch through the barracks 
 
 “ orn ' n S? ! n °tder that the General Aflembly and peo- 
 F T ay bc i ' l,lsficd > and a11 lufpicion removed. As theft 
 are the only motives for the fear, I flatter myfelf that it will 
 not give you umbrage. J 
 
 I am. 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 r . ^ _ obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut, Gen. Burgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 . Co/ovrr v • , , .. Cambridge, March iZth, 1778. 
 
 Keith delivered to me your favour of this 
 
 t7A?iT m ? S a ref ° lve ° f the two Houfes of Affembly, 
 andhe bkevvife communicated to me your warrant for his 
 
 obftruaion 84 h inf ° rm y ° U that he met with no 
 
 ance to I °V he ? ntraiT ’ eve T attention and affift- 
 
 employecL ^ Vlllonary P urfuit upon which he was 
 
 It would be Superfluous and uncivil towards you, Sir, to 
 
 fa°vThaveT n T f ! Vhich 18 n0t 7 OUr I Aall only 
 } ' . ^ en . ate y . l0 ° tuuch habituated to extraordinary 
 its, to teel lurpnze or agitation at any, and in the 
 prefent inftance, I fincerely alfure you, I And myfelf much 
 more inclined to fmile than to take umbrage. * * 
 
 I am, & 
 
 SIR, 
 
 A/T ■ ~ j, , Your moil obedient fervant. 
 
 Major Gen. Heath, J. Burooy^ 
 
 TVTR ! w’ia d -j , Cambridge, March lath, 1778. 
 
 d ’ my a,d " de ~ cam P> is juft now returned- I 
 have the honour to tranlmit to you copies of all the refolves 
 or trie Congrefs that I have received. 
 
 As the Congrefs have been fo obliging to leave me a la- 
 
 tn UC j rn '] e f’ ace ot embarkation, I ptopofe to eo bv 
 
 wh^nwf^’l re , qUCft y ° Ur P a ff?“K to It o It 
 
 Sir h Ift y ou?h y e‘V T ree <J - ayS - In the mean time, 
 felt, I Ihould be ouliged to you if you wouId permit th > 
 
 officer 
 
C A N A D A P A P E R S. lix 
 
 i 
 
 officer commanding the flag of truce to come on fhore for 
 a few hours. By converfation with him upon the provi- 
 fion in the tranfport, the means of landing it, fhould it be 
 thought proper, and the expediency of fparing it from the 
 fhips, a great deal of time might be faved, and conveniencies 
 to our mutual account might enfue ; I mean the officer to be 
 under parole not to convey any unopened letters. 
 
 I have reafon to believe there is a military cheft on board 
 the Juno for the ufe of thefe troops, I requefl: to know whe- 
 ther you will permit it to be landed and delivered to Major 
 General Phillips, parole being given that there arc no letters 
 nor other papers therein contained. 
 
 I fhall be obliged to you for an anfwer to this as foon as 
 may be, and fhould wifh alfo to have an interview with you 
 at Cambridge or Bofton, as you may think proper. 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 
 To Major General Heath • J. Burgoyne. 
 
 In Congrefs , March 2 d, 1 7 7 
 
 THE committee, to whom the letter from Lieutenant 
 General Burgoyne to the prefldent of the Congrcfs, dated 
 the 1 ith February, No. 1. with the papers inclol'ed was re- 
 ferred, report 
 
 44 That they have carefully perufed and duly confidered 
 the letter and papers, and are of opinion, that nothing therein 
 contained is fufficient to induce Congrefs to recede from tli^ir 
 refolves of the 8th of January laft, relpe&ing the Convention 
 of Saratoga.” Whereupon 
 
 Refolved, That Congrefs agree to the faid report. 
 
 Extra# from the Minutes. 
 
 Cha. Thompson, Sec. 
 
 In Congrefs, Alar oh 3J, 1778. 
 
 THE committee, to whom the letter from Lieutenant 
 Wilford, aid-de-camp to General Burgoyne, was referred, 
 report, 
 
 44 That Lieutenant Wilford be permitted to deliver to 
 the board of war, duplicates of the papers by him prefented 
 to Congrefs, and that the board be directed to forward them 
 to General W’afhington, to be tranfmitted by a flag to Ge- 
 neral Howe without delay; but that Lieutenant Wilford be 
 
 h 2 not 
 
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 Jf t 
 
 not permitted perfonally to convey the duplicates either t» 
 General Wafhington or General Howe.” 
 
 .Refolved, 1 hat Congrefs agree to the report of the com- 
 mittee. r 
 
 Extradl from the Minutes. 
 
 (A true Copy) Cha. Thompson, Sec. 
 
 Horatio Gates , Major Gen . 
 
 TUr . , In Congrefs, March od, 1778. 
 
 f B1L committee, to whom was referred the letter No. 2. 
 from Lieutenant General Burgoyne, February 11th with a 
 paper inclofed, brought in a report, which was taken into 
 conlideration. Vv hereupon 
 
 Refolved, That Lieutenant General Burgoyne on ac- 
 count of his ill -Hate of health, with the officers of his fa- 
 mily and his lervants, be permitted to embark for Great 
 Britain ; that General Heath furnifh the necefiary paff- 
 ports, accepting a parole from Lieutenant General Bur- 
 goyne Lieutenant Colonel Kingfton, and Doftor Wood, 
 that fliould the embarkation of the troops of the Convention 
 of Saratoga be by any means prolonged beyond the time 
 apprehended, thole officers will return to America uoon 
 demand and due notice given, and will deliver themleives 
 imo the power of Congrefs, unlels regularly exchanged.” 
 r Re .,° lV . ed ’. That -Captain Willoe of the '8 th regiment be 
 mrniinerUv-ith a paffport to return to Canada bv way of 
 Hallifax in Nova Scotia, under the region of the parole 
 
 rdl ? fcu Cnna ; a " tr00 P s in the Convention of Saratoga, 
 till he ihcwl oe regularly exchanged* 
 
 Kciolved, J I hat it is not expedient to grant the paffports 
 
 requefted by General Burgoyne for Captain Vigors of the 
 
 Bib%TfTe1;th‘. eUtenant ‘ Wheat ° f thC 2 ° th ’ orlicuteMnt 
 
 Extract from the Minutes. 
 
 Cha. Thompson, Sec, 
 
 J k R \ dd '* 6 th March, 1778. 
 
 BY the hands or Lieutenant Wilford on the 26th Fe- 
 bruary, I received the honour of your Excellency's letter 
 o the I.thof that month, No.,, and upon the id inftad 
 ot another letter from your Excellency of the former date, 
 
 ■ ' thele ln due courle I presented to Congrefs, and I 
 
 have 
 
CANADA PAPERS, 
 
 have received in charge to tranfmit to your Excellency the 
 three afts undermentioned, which will be found within the 
 prefent cover. 
 
 ift ? An aft of the 2d March, confirming the aft of Ja- 
 nuary 8th, for fufpending the embarkation of the troops in 
 the Convention of Saratoga. 
 
 2d, An aft of the 3d March for enabling Lieutenant Wil- 
 ford to tranfmit certain papers to General Howe, 
 
 3d, An aft of the fame date for granting paffports for 
 your Excellency with the officers of your Excellency’s family, 
 and fervants, to embark for Great Britain, and for other 
 purpofes therein refolved. 
 
 o thefe fever al afts, Sir, I beg leave particularly to 
 refer, as containing all that Congrel's have judged necelfary 
 for me to return to your Excellency’s letters above recited. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 with all proper confideration, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 obedient and mofl humble fervant. 
 His Excellency Lieut . Gen. Henry Laurens, 
 
 Burgcyne, Cambridge^ JblaJJacbuJets • Prefiuentof Congrefs. 
 
 SIR, Cambridge , March 20 tb, 1778. 
 
 SINCE I had the pleafure of feeing you it has occurred 
 to me and General Reidelel, that Captain Willoe going by 
 Halifax to Canada, may arrive too late at Quebec to pre- 
 vent the clothing deftiued for the troops of the Convention 
 being fent to England, upon the belief that they would be 
 failed from hence before this time. 
 
 I have therefore to afk you. Sir, whether you have any 
 objeftion to grant a paffport for a German cfficei to go to 
 Canada by the Lakes, and return with the cloathing by lea? 
 and whether you will give fafe conduft for the (hips con- 
 veying the cloatlnng and other neceffaries for the tioops of 
 the Convention, and for the fafe delivery of thofe articles 
 into the hands of the General commanding thofe troops for 
 the time being. 
 
 Should you not confent to a German officer going, I 
 have to apply to you to convey by a flag of truce of your 
 own, a letter for the above purpofe from me to Sir Guy 
 Carleton or general officer commanding in Canada, fhould 
 
Ixil 
 
 appendix t o the 
 
 alfo^e g!ad to know, at what time Captain Willoe is to hold 
 nimlelfr in readmcis to embark for Halifax* 
 
 I am, 
 
 s : SIR,, - ■ 
 
 .. , ’ ' Your moft obedient tervant, 
 
 Mcj.Gm. Heath. . J.Burgovne. 
 
 * - A ' J \ • ✓ , i i 
 
 iMMFril Alt? Bqfton, March 2 2, 1778. 
 
 1 u P on m Y rcturn t0 place, on Fri- 
 
 day laft l forwarded your letters to the Caftle, to be Pent on 
 boaid the. cartel, the wind blowing yefterday almoft a hurri- 
 cane, no inte ligance could be obtained from thence, and al- 
 though rt ftill blows frelh, a boat has this moment come up 
 (one o clock 1 . M.). The incloled is the report which I 
 have received from Lieutenant Colonel Revere, I very much 
 fear, that the fchooijer, called the Lady Wafhington, is ei- 
 tner drove on fliore, and beat to pieces, or out to fea in 
 which ca!e, the hands and guard who were on board, muft 
 perilh. As your letters were on board that fchooner, they 
 ml ptobably be loft, I have therefore difpatched a light 
 horleman to your Excellency, that you may forward n^w 
 dnpatches, without lots of time. Having a copy of your let- 
 ter I have fent it that you may fee what were its contents 
 as I oblerved .you did not take a copy. The light horfeman 
 wih wait for your letters, and I will detain the boat until he 
 returns. VV ould afk the favour, that the encloled papers may 
 be returned by the bearer hereof. ‘ ^ ^ 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 m °ft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut, Gen. Eurgoyne. W. Heath. 
 
 C T ]) 
 
 t r T A r\k „ Cambridge. March '>'> 
 
 1 HOLD m y felf exceedingly. obliged, by your attention 7 to 
 my late di (patch, and fhall feel a very fine ere regret, if any 
 lots of men is {uftained on your part. 3 a ^ 
 
 I return a new letter, word for wo'rd with the old one and 
 have only to reejueft you will add thereto duplicates of ’your 
 
 P ,° l " ° Captain Dalrvmple tor the feeurity of die tranfports 
 and the lecunty and conveyance of the money. I very much 
 >vifh the cartel to be difpatched to-night, and fhall hope to 
 
 hear 
 
CANADA PAPER S. 
 
 hear from you to-morrow refpe&ing my applications by my 
 
 letter of Friday evening, ’ , A , 
 
 1 am, with many thanks for your lak favour, 
 
 .SIR, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 
 [Signed] J. B. 
 
 P. S. Mr. Clarke has not yet heard from your Commiflary. 
 
 g \ R Cambridge , March, 23, 1 ]"]%• 
 
 I AM forry, fo foon after my laft difpatch to Captain Dai- 
 rymple to trouble you again, but mull particularly requeft 
 the favour of you to fend off the inclofed, without any loft 
 of time ; and if you will be fo obliging to order a good fail- 
 ing boat to go all the way to Cape Cod, I will readily pay any 
 expence that may be neceflary upon that occafioo. 
 r I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant. 
 
 Major General Heath . [Signed] J- B, 
 
 SIR, Head Quarters, B often, March 2?, 1778. 
 
 YOUR favour of the 20th inftant came fafe to hand, but 
 being exceedingly prefled with bufinefs, I have not been able 
 fooner to anfwer it. 
 
 I apprehend that Congrefs could have no more objection to 
 Captain Willoe’s going to Canada by the way of the Lakes, 
 than any other officer, and that as they difapproved of his 
 goin°\ they would equally diiapprove of a German officer s 
 o-oing by that rout, I cannot therefore grant your requeft in 
 that refped. If your Excellency fliould think proper to 
 write to Sir Guy Carleton, or general commander in Canada, 
 
 I will, with great pleafure, forward it to the commanding 
 officer at Albany, and deflre him, as foon as poflible, to con- 
 vey it by a flag to the firft poft in the pofleflion of the Biitifli 
 
 troops in Canada. Q 
 
 I fhall alfo with pleafure grant proteftion to luch flag as 
 may arrive with the clothing and other necellaries, for the 
 troops of the Convention, and as far as is in mv power, fa- 
 cilitate the delivery of the articles (after proper examination) 
 into the hands of the commanding officer of the troops °* 
 the Convention for the Ume being. Captain Willoe null, at 
 
Ar rtNDIX TO THE 
 
 any time, have his paflport to proceed to Halifax, but I can- 
 not lay when a flag will fail for that place. I have given 
 
 /°l the m ,f/ ll, S ent P re P aration of accounts fof fet- 
 
 llllT T ? Cy T 1 ?° n l i e /r reacJ y- Mr - CommilTary Clarke 
 will, I belive, hear from Mr. CommifTary Miller this day 
 
 I am, /# 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 T . ~ „ m °A obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. W . He at if. 
 
 , TI ? E J n ^ l0 f ecl I L re Sf lved the laft evening, am exceedingly 
 forry to find that the fleet have returned to Rhode Ifland, as 
 
 a veflel arrived this morning, reports to havefeen them under 
 laid on yelterday. 
 
 . * fter ' ookin g over Captain Dalrymple’s letter of the t eth 
 lnltant, I am at a lofs for the real'on of the vi&uallers re- 
 urning to Rhode Ifland with the provifions, as it appears 
 fi om his letter, that they were defigned for the troops of the 
 Convention. The accounts muft be fettled, and 1 fhall “be 
 happy in facilitating them all in my power. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 T . „ moft obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne. w. Heath. 
 
 1 
 
 T>Y . Philadelphia, Fel. 5, 1778. 
 
 B\ advices received from Rhode Ifland, tranfinming to 
 me a copy of a letter from General Heath to Lieutenant 
 General Burgoyne (copy of which is inclofed) I am inform- 
 
 • v ft 'r* ictcrm,ne ; 1 to detain General Burgovne’s troops 
 m New England, until all demands for their provifions, and 
 other neceflar.es, are latisfied, and that this determination is 
 grounded, not only upon a requifition of mine for provifions 
 to be rent in for the fubfiftence of the prifoners i n P m y pof- 
 teffion, and for the purchafe of other necelTaries, but upon a 
 forgery by my agents, cmiffaries, and abettors, of what are 
 
 fll he d ?" tln , c " tal blUs ° f . credit - This laft allegation is too 
 liberal to deferve a fenouS anfwer. With regard to the 
 
 other, I know not from what expreffion, in any of my letters t. 
 you it has been underftood, that I made the requifition al- 
 luded to. \ ou know that the allowance of provifions to priio- 
 
 ners 
 
C A N A D A P A P E R S. Ixv 
 
 Rcrs from the beginning of my command, has been equal in 
 quantity and quality to what is given to our own troops not on 
 iervice. If you had thought this inefficient, you might have 
 dire&ed a farther iupply from the markets, and were likewife 
 at liberty to lend in whatever articles you thought proper from 
 the country. The allowance of fuel has been alfo regulated, 
 as well as our means would admit, and a fimilar permiffion 
 of purchafe or fupply from you, has never been refufed. 
 
 My letter of the 21 ft of April laft, explained to you the ex- 
 tent afforded to the prifoners ; cloathing, and fome other ne- 
 ceflaries, they had a right to expert from thole who had been 
 the occafion of their being expofed to the chance of captivity, 
 and that idea I have ever underllood to be mutual. Butnot- 
 withftanding the remonllrances I made to you upon that 
 point, finding that fupplies were not lent in, my humanity 
 interpofed on behalf of the unfortunate men in our pofleffion , 
 and on a late reprefentation of their diftrefs, I permitted in 
 this city, the purchafe of blanketting, and fuch other necef- 
 faries as the leverity of the winter required, and without 
 which they muft abfolutely have perifhed. 
 
 Confident, as I am, that you will acknowledge this to be a 
 juft recital of fails, I cannot but think it unneceftary to fay 
 any thing farther, either upon the cruelty falfely alledged to 
 have been exercifed againft the prifoners, or the unjuft re- 
 flexions you have been fo often induced to tranfmit to me 
 upon that head. 
 
 In confideration, however, of the real and unavoidable di- 
 ft relies of the prifoners on both fides, as well as to put an end 
 to all fmitlefs altercation on the fubjeX, 1 fha.ll confent to an 
 immediate exchange of all prifoners now in our poffeffion, as 
 well officers as private men, fo far as the numbei of the lat- 
 ter, and parity of the rank of the former, will admit. _ In 
 the mean time, I fh all wait the arrival here of the Bntifh. 
 officers, whom you have releafed upon their paroles, and fhall, 
 without delay, fend an equal number to you in return. 
 
 With regard to the accompt for provifions and other necef- 
 faries, which I find by General Heath’s letter, is become a 
 pretext for infringing, if it is not intended as an ablolute 
 breach of the Convention of Saratoga, I do readily agree to 
 the immediate appointment of commiffioners, on your pait 
 and on mine, to fettle that accompt, together with all other 
 accompts for provifions, 6cc. furnillied the prifoners on either 
 
 fide, and to make payment of the balance. 
 
 9 ; You 
 
lxvi 
 
 APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 You have only to name your commiflioners (two will, I 
 think, be fufficient) and appoint a convenient place and time 
 for their meeting two gentlemen on my part, to terminate the 
 bulinefs. The exchange of prifoners, and the accommoda- 
 tion of the difference that has fo long fubfifted between us 
 upon that fcore, may be acljufted at the fame time by the 
 fame commiflioners, upon an equitable plan as formerly pro- 
 pofed by yourfelf. 
 
 Thefe proportions, founded as they in great meafure are, 
 upon your own fuggeftions, I confider as now mutuallya greed 
 upon between us, and therefore I muft hope to find, that you 
 are capable of carrying them finally into execution, without 
 permitting any let of men to interfere, at their pleafure, with 
 luch authority as has been veiled in you, for the exchange of 
 prifoners, and for the decilion of all matters relating to 
 them. 
 
 As I have no objection to the earlieft meeting of the com- 
 miflioners for completing the exchange and liquidating tho 
 accounts, I truft there will be no new impediment to the re- 
 leale of General Burgoyne’s troops, but that you will give 
 immediately fuch orders for their embarkation upon the ar- 
 rival of the tranfports at Bolton, as will remove every diffi- 
 culty. 
 
 P. S. Your letters of the 20th and 30th January are re- 
 ceived, and lhall be aniwered in a few days. 
 
 I RECEIVED yefterday the favour of your letter of the 
 5th inftant. 
 
 In anfwer to whatever it contains concerning General 
 Burgoyne’s army, and the meafures adopted relative to it, I 
 have only to inform you, this is a matter in which I have 
 never had the leaft dire&ion. It lies wholly with Con- 
 grefs, and the propofals you make on this head muft be fub- 
 mitted to them. 1 have accordingly tranfmitted a copy of 
 your letter, and I fhall be ready to forward you any refolu- 
 tions they may take in confequence. 
 
 I fhall omit animadverting on your obfervations, with re- 
 gard to the allowance and treatment to prifoners in your 
 
 With due refprtt T am, 
 
 Your moft obedient fervant, 
 Gen . Wajhhigion , istc. &c. (Signed) W. H< 
 
 W. Howe. 
 
 t 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Head Quarters, Feb. 10, 1 7 78. 
 
 hands ; 
 
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CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 hands ; it is a fubjeft which ne«ffiw of a further 
 
 — *• 
 
 Congrefs, and mull ot co \ j* n<r to the circum- 
 
 tions as they may thm ' FJ>per, ^ f ° Uy aut horifed by 
 
 fiances, to prefcribe. B ° to avail mvielf of the rea- 
 
 their inftru&ions and intenti » -p- ' Q a( j 0 pt for the 
 
 fonable terms you are at t 15 lo f e w ith your 
 
 mutual relief of pnfoners, I Ihall explicitly 
 
 proportions to the following eftett. poffeffion. 
 
 That an exchange of all pnfoners now ^ fo 
 
 officer for officer, foldiei or » carried into execution 
 
 far as number and rank will app y, admit, and 
 
 as expeditioufly as *e - “r rt °/ d fit thich might prove 
 without regard to any con F ^ here, as j ma y 
 
 an impediment to \o defira e * , e ou {w “ la 
 
 not clearly und T e J? a ^ d ^kTaniv^of the Britifh officers, 
 the mean time I ihall wa oa roles, and ffiall, with- 
 
 whom you have releafed in return I take 
 
 out delay, lend an equal , ( - j to favour me with an 
 
 occafion to requeft you will fuch officers on 
 
 explanation, whethei yoa int obligation of a parole, 
 
 both (ides, as Ml continuing under the general car- 
 
 or as ablolutely exchange , !r o. ua l exchange Ihould not 
 tel. I fee no reafon why an effectual excn.ng 
 
 at once operate with refpeft TO them. u meet a 
 
 I alfo agree, that two comm.ffionets from ^ Ger _ 
 
 difference £ 
 
 "fafi tu otTr "nSters as they may be feverally em- 
 
 powered to determine. r1m ent of accounts, as it 
 
 P With refpea to a g^lfjfaTno Authority to inter- 
 comprehends points with w in the meafure you 
 
 fere, it is not in my power o concm of refer . 
 
 fugged for that purpofe. 1 am unaei 
 
 ring it to the decifion of Congre s. r 11 v agreed on be- 
 Confidering a gens.1 « 4? ?Ze«, in out. 
 
 tween us, I ffiall, without deby o de, t P fts> 
 
 hands, to places in the vicinity ot you^ ^ and 
 
 tkeir refpe&ivc fituauons may render mo (hall 
 
 X 2 
 
 ixV* 
 
 
hviii 
 
 
 appendix to the 
 
 H.all give you notice as they arrive, that you may return * 
 number equal to thofe Cent in from time to time. 7 
 
 I am, with due reipeft, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 ^ OL1r moft obedient fervant, 
 
 G'mral Bow,, bfc. Isle. Ge °' WASH ‘ N °TOtt. 
 
 T HA vr ‘ j i r Philadelphia, Feb . 14 177$, 
 I HA\ E received the favour of your letter of the ,oth 
 inllant, m confcquence of which I fhall fend two commit' 
 
 day Appointed! ' h ° ft ° n ^ ^ Town, - to 
 
 * a Zr a l dl i ftreii ' eS ,'J Iu< i- h fram 100 good authority I under. 
 Hand the lower clafs of pnloners labour under, induce me to 
 
 requeft you w, 11 g.ve fuel, direftions as may expedite th^ex 
 change of the non-commiffioned officers and private men fo 
 the mode you have propofed; and as the forefoners and Rri 
 
 j be e , <1Uall>r dd,rous of their liberty” and equally 
 conhdered in the general releafe, I truft you will direft that 
 
 t .- p. doners tent in, are proportioned as nearly as the num 
 bets oyeach m your poffeffion and their fituation will admit 
 \V,th re, peft to the exchange of comniithoned office^ you 
 w 11 Pen™ me to premife, that this inuft be governed b^the 
 releafe of the Heffian field officers taken t- „ ^ th f 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the TiTre "ime^/ 
 who have not only been lon^eft confined hni-^H u- i 1Cnt ’ 
 been the objefh If particufar ex"’, & ex" ' for 
 thole gentlemen, as well as for the other officers wdf tK 
 take place, as is agreed upon. This will explain'd,? * " 
 
 mg of the paragraph in my letter quoted by vou with le' 
 fpeft to the releafe of officers upon parole nrJr t^\l, “ 
 
 offi ° f H' T? 3 "' Colonel Campbell, and die Heffian field 
 Officers— I defire to be underftood thir In r • n , hel ^ 
 
 change the officers and foldiers belonmnc to the armT 
 mantled by Lieutenant General BurySyme who ZTV ? m ‘ 
 prior to foe Convention of Saratoga hre , nen ^ ken ; 
 within thtkdefcription of prifoncts, “equally witlfthofe o/fol 
 arm} more immediately under my command. 14 
 
 i t leems necefiary, with regard to citizens tnnofl i 
 cxcltange of tlicip, until the meeting of the comjffioners' 
 
 who 
 
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 who by a perfenal difcuffion, may finally afcertain the di- 
 itinCtions and equality of the perfons to be exchang'd. 
 
 With duerefpeCV, I am. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Y our moft obedient fervant, 
 
 !G(n. Wajhingtw, &c. &c. (Signed) W. Howe. 
 
 SIR, _ Cambridge , March 26, 1778. 
 
 THE commanding officer of your troops not being at Cam- 
 bridge, I am under the necelfity of troubling you & vvith the 
 incloied complaint from Lieutenant Batterfbv, an officer of 
 the Convention. He is now in the guard-houle, which I 
 think, you will argee with me, is an improper place for an 
 officer, though Ire might, in the firft inftance, be in the 
 wrong. 
 
 Should an officer endanger his parole, by being out at an 
 improper hour, his being put in arreft, or confined to the li- 
 mits of the barracks, till the affair was enquired into, 1 fhould 
 think the worfl that could happen to him in any country. 
 
 I fhould be obliged. Sir, if you would releafe Mr. Battcrf- 
 by from his prefent difagreeable fituation. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Y our moffc obedient fervant. 
 
 Major Gen. Heath . J. Burcoyne. 
 
 SIR, Head Quarters, Bofton, March 27, 1 7 78. 
 
 YOL'R favour of yefterday, enclofing a complaint of 
 Lieutenant Batterfby, came to hand the laft evening, and was 
 new and furprifing to me, as the leaf! hint of it had not been 
 communicated by my officers. 
 
 Strict order and diicipline are conftantly inculcated and re- 
 quired in my orders, and always where it refpedts officers 
 whether Continental or of the Convention, that delicacy 
 which is due to the character of the officer and the gentleman 
 is ftriCtly enjoined. The time of night when the lieute- 
 nant was taken up, and the terms of his parole, might pro- 
 perly fubjeCt him to confinement until the morning. This, 
 however, ought to have been in the officer’s room, and not 
 with common prifoncrs. But you are fenfible that the officers 
 of the guards, although men of the belt characters, are not lb 
 fully acquainted with the refinements of military diicipline 
 as were to be wifbed. It mult, therefore, be confidered as an 
 
 error 
 
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 error of judgment, and from the beft intelligence, it is an 
 error which has been frequently committed during the pre- 
 fent war, efpecially at New York, where our unfortunate 
 officers are often fent to the provoft for the lmallefl trifles, 
 and lbmetimes they know not for what, and there remain tor 
 weeks It is a proceeding, however, which 1 equally deteit, 
 both there and here, and have ordered Colonel Keith to re- 
 leafe Lieutenant Batterfby immediately, which fhould have 
 been done the next morning after his confinement, had it 
 
 Joeen reported to me. 
 
 Lieut, Gen. Burgoync . 
 
 am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 moft obedient fervant, 
 
 W. Heath. 
 
 \ 
 
 SIR Cambridge , March 27? 
 
 1 HAVE the favour of yours of the 26th, together with 
 a letter from Captain Brathwaite, and am concerned at the 
 precipitate departure of the fleet, which I take for granted, 
 proceeded from Captain Braithwaite not thinking himielf 
 authorised to delay the execution of Lord Howe’s orders. 1 
 am the more concerned, as I find by Mr. Mefereau, who is 
 iuil returned from Rhode Ifland, that Lord Howe and Gene- 
 ral Pigot expefted the provifion would be landed. There is 
 no my fiery in the particular departure of the vi&uallers 
 loaded with flour, they being clearly intended as an additional 
 {lore for the troops upon their paffage, and could never be 
 originally defigned for their ufe on fliore, becaufe at the time 
 they and the reft of the fleet failed from Rhode Ifland, it could 
 not have been in the contemplation of Lord Howe, that the 
 troops would be detained on fliore a Angle day after their ar- 
 
 In anfwer to the paragraph, which fays the accounts muft 
 be fettled, I am induced to ftate to you fome remarks upon 
 mv fixation, and I beg you to confidcr them as a very folemn 
 
 remonftrance. . 
 
 '] he relolve of Congrefs, refpeamg my departure tor 
 England, is framed moft accurately and moft attentively, in 
 favour of my journey ; it takes the very words of my ap- 
 plication, in 'the mention of my health, and of my going by 
 Rhode Ifland, or other more expeditious route ; both thele cir- 
 cumftances clearly demonftrate, the Congrefs meant no delay, 
 and their dire&ions to you to furnilh paffiports are exprefs and 
 
 uncon- 
 

 wnyjuMii "* 
 
 kfliHnHBBH 
 
 
 CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 unconditional, except in the cireumftance of receiving from 
 me a parole to return to America, upon the call of the Con- 
 grefs, &c. &c. 
 
 Had other conditions been neceffary, it is not to be fup- 
 pofed, they would have been overlooked ; but the plain con- 
 ftruttion of the vote proves yet more, for the conditional pa- 
 role required, if it does not in effeft cancel the vote of the 
 19th of December, “ it at lead: puts an end to all pretence 
 of neceflity 'for it at this time, becaufe I fhall be as much 
 under the controul of the Congrefs in England as in Cam- 
 bridge, and as liable to be brought back upon any difputes in 
 fettling the accounts, as upon any other cireumftance, which you 
 will obferve, is a fituation quite different from that I flood in 
 at the time the vote was paffed for my detention in December. 
 The luppofttion that the Congrefs meant to releafe me with 
 one hand and to fetter me with the other, is an idea too in- 
 jurious for me to conceive. Upon theie confiderations, I 
 again claim of you my paffports for Rhode Illand, in virtue 
 of the refolve, of which you have a copy, and I am with the 
 other gentlemen concerned, ready to ftgn the parole therein 
 required. To this claim I muft adhere, but being ftill de- 
 lirous to accommodate matters according to your wifhes, if 
 poflible, I will confent to poftpone my journey till Wednef- 
 day, provided you will compel your commiffary (for no fo- 
 licitation on the part of Mr. Clarke has any effeft) to de- 
 liver his account to-morrow. 
 
 The account of wood is likewife ftill withheld, and I cannot 
 but obferve to you, Sir, that while you have been exprefling 
 to me your inclination to facilitate this buftnefs, eight days are 
 already elapfed, by the negledl of your commiffaries ; and I 
 at prefent labour under that ftrange fpecies of perfecution, to 
 have a mealure infifted upon, and yet to be prevented all pol- 
 fible means of complying with it. 
 
 Though the fleet is tailed, I fee no obftru£tion to liquida- 
 ting the proviflon-account upon the principle firft propofed : 
 and for this purpofe, a commiffary of yours might attend me 
 to Rhode Ifland, and I will make myfelf refponftble to you to 
 convey to the Port of Bofton by veffels, in which your com- 
 miffary may return, fuch a quantity of proviftons, as fhall 
 replace what the troops have confumed ; or in cafe of defi- 
 ciency, an equivalent depofit of money fhall be fent to you 
 by your commiffary, that depofit to be refunded to the com- 
 manding officer of the Convention troops for the time being, 
 I whea- 
 
 lxxi 
 
 
 
APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 whenever the complete balance of the provifions (hall ar- 
 rive. 
 
 The propofal muft furely remove all material difficulties. 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 
 J. Burgoyne. 
 
 P. S. I have received your letter of this day’s date, re- 
 fpe&ing Lieutenant Batterlby, and am obliged' to you for 
 your attention. 
 
 Major General Heath . 
 
 SIR, Cambridge, March 27, 1 7 7 ^» 
 
 I SHOULD be glad to know if a {mall veil'd could be got 
 to carry Captain Willoe to Halifax, and what the expence 
 would be, and am to delire you will pleafe 1 to order pair- 
 ports to be taken by Captain Willoe to Canada, and duplicates 
 by the flag of truce that goes by the way of Albany, for the 
 fafe condufl of the veflels that are to bring the cloathing, and 
 other articles for the Convention troops, to the port of 
 Bolton. The difpatches are ready to go by the flag of truce 
 to Albany as foon as you pleafe. 
 
 I am, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your obedient fervant, 
 
 Major Gen. Heath . J. Burgoyne. 
 
 SIR, Head §h<arters, Bojlon, March 28, 1 7 7 S. 
 
 YOUR favour of yefterday I duly received : having taken 
 every Hep in my power, lince I had the plealure to fee you, 
 to quicken my quarter malter and commiHary, I yefterday, 
 before I received your favour, had their alfurances that the 
 accounts iliould be exhibited this day, and I am confident 
 that they will. As the examination of the accounts, and 
 reporting them to you, will take up the greateft part of this 
 day, I lliall poftpone feeing you until Monday morning, 
 when I intend to participate that pleafure. And I again 
 allure you, that 1 will not throw any unnecelfary objection 
 in the way, to delay your departure, meaning nothing but a 
 jollification of my conduct to Congrefs. I fhall on Monday 
 fhew you paragraph of a letter of the 14th inftant, which I 
 have had the honour to receive from the Prefident of Con- 
 &t;efs. 
 
CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 In anfvver to your other favour, I believe, a {mall veffel 
 rnav be procured to carry Captain Wnloe to Halifax, t.ie 
 expence, I apprehend, would be from i«ol. to 200U Any 
 bdiports which you defire to be fent by Captain Willoe, or 
 bv the flag of truce, fhall be granted. 1 wifh to be informed 
 how many veffels will be neceffary for the purpofe. The 
 dilpatches fhall be forwarded to Albany, as foon as I receive 
 them, and can complete the neceffary papers to be forwarded 
 
 ^'fhavTfelt myfelf the 1 aft night and this morning, much 
 indlfpofed, which prevents my writing you on lome ot. er 
 
 matters. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your Excellency’s 
 
 obedient fervant, 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne . VV * H E A T H * 
 
 g I Cambridge , March 29. ^ 
 
 SINCE receiving the favour of yours of yefterday, I have 
 confldercd maturely the fubjed of the accounts, and find, 1 
 can, conflftently with my duty, meet you 10 very nearly upon 
 your own terms, that nothing but fincerity in the eng £g 
 riients made to me, which I will not iulpeft, can prevent my 
 
 lrt i“m a indS r ' to give you this information to-day, that no 
 impediment may arife to fimfhing the whole bu.tncfs to 
 rotv, when I expeft, in confequence of your engagement, the 
 
 f TU”l"fmodvefor being thus preffing having left 
 night fuffered an attack from the gout in my ftomach, ot a 
 much more ferious nature than I have ever before experienced. 
 I am convinced, every day’s detention in this country enc, an- 
 gers my life ; and I am confident, you would be forry to re- 
 led hereafter, that any unneceffary, not to lav unwarrantable 
 delays, bad contributed to fuch actuation. My propolal ia 
 regard to paying proviflons in kind, and ot luen quality as 
 your Commiffary fhall approve, I underftand to be finally 
 
 fettled between us. . , 
 
 In regard to the wood account, and the account given >n y 
 General Glover, there are certainly feveral articles that ac- 
 nuire more difcuffion and examination, than can pofiiblv be 
 given them within the time I have named for my departure ; 
 but in order to remove every difficulty from your mind,^l 
 
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Ixxiv 
 
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 will give you whatever Turns you fhall require within the 
 charge, for the receipt, upon account : thefe fums I will alfo 
 engage, upon my parole, to put into the hands of your com- 
 miliary at Rhode Ifiand, or if you prefer it, I will give you 
 the pay mafter general's bills, which I will indorfe upon the 
 public account, and will pledge myfelf for their being dif- 
 counted at par at Rhode Illand, if you do not choofe to ne- 
 gotiate them at Bofton. 
 
 After going fo far to accommodate your inclination, I have 
 only to add my reliance that you will bring with you to mor- 
 row my paflports and a parole, according to the refolve of the 
 Congrefs. 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, See. 
 
 To Major Gen, Heath. J. Burcoyne* 
 
 SIR, Cambridge, March 30, 1778. 
 
 IF the weather prevented your coming to Cambridge this 
 morning, I would readily have attended you in Bofton, had 
 you thought proper to have fent me lafe conduit by an aid- 
 de-camp. 
 
 L pon every reafon that I alledged to you in my laft letter, 
 I am to deftre an immediate and decifive anfwer in regard to 
 my requiiition of paflports, conformable to the vote of the 
 Congrefs, and am perluadcd from the attention you have pro- 
 felled, that you will feel for my fltuation in point of health. 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 \ our moft obedient 
 
 , To Major General Heath. (Signed} J. 
 
 SIR, Cambridge, March 31, 1778. 
 
 I HEREWITH inclofe you two copies of the articles 
 agreed upon between us, one I have figned, and will be oblioed 
 to you to fend me back the other as fcon as you have ftgnecfit, 
 and alfo the paflports for me and my family to Rhode Illand! 
 
 I propofe waiting upon you at Bofton on Thurfday morn- 
 ing* at the hour moft convenient to yourfelf, and muft deftre 
 you to lend an officer to conduct me. 
 
 I mean to lend oft my fervants and baggage on Thurfday 
 moi ning, and wouiq take it as a favour, if you would inform 
 
 me 
 

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 me to whom I am to applly for carriages, and whether it is 
 neceffary to have any feparate paffports or efcort for them. 
 
 . You will obferve, Sir, in the account of fuel, I have fe- 
 parated the wood' from the other charges, which {hall be let- 
 tied and paid here, according to our agreement. 
 
 I have alio left a blank for General Glover’s account, the 
 fum may be inlerted after his major of brigade has lettled the 
 
 ^ I* think, if Mr. Geddes and Mr. Commiffary Clarke went 
 with me to Rhode Iiland, it would greatly facilitate all the 
 bufinefs in hand, and they might return with your officer. 
 
 I am, SIR, &c. 
 
 Your obedient fervant. 
 
 Major Gen. Heath . J- Burgoyne. 
 
 ARTICLES of agreement between his Excellency Lieute^ 
 nant General Burgoyne and Major General Heath, relpe fl- 
 ing the payment of provifions, fuel, &c. lurmlhed to the 
 troops of the Convention. 
 
 I It is ao-reed, on the part of Lieutenant General Bur- 
 govne, that a quantity of barrel provifions equal to the 
 quantity charged to General Burgoyne by Mr. Commiffary 
 Miller, in his account, dated 13th and 21ft January, an 
 *>oth February, fhall be fent to Bofton as lpeedily as circum- 
 ftances will permit ; that is to fay, one half of the faid pro- 
 vifions from Rhode Iiland, within twenty days after the arri- 
 val of General Burgoyne in the laid Iiland. The refidue, 
 lhould it be neceffary to fend for it from New York, in forty- 
 
 days after the faid arrival. , „ 
 
 It is alfo agreed on the part of General Burgoyne to depo- 
 fit fuch fums as fhall be equivalent to the proviiion not lent 
 from Rhode Ifland within twenty days, thefe lums to be put 
 into the hands of the officer or commiffary, who General 
 Heath' fhall appoint to accompany General Burgoyne to 
 
 II. And it is further agreed, that if the provifion fhould 
 not be delivered, according to the above terms, the depoiit, 
 in as much as is equivalent to the provifion lo failing, ihall 
 remain with General Heath as payment of the account. # 
 And it is further engaged by General Burgoyne to pay into 
 the hands of the faid officer appointed by General Heath o 
 accompany the general to Rhode Ifland, the fum or 
 
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APPENDIX TO THE 
 
 thoufand two hundred and fixty-three pounds, fourteen {hil- 
 lings, lawful money, being the amount of the account char- 
 ged to the troops for fuel. 
 
 And it is alfo engaged, by General Burgoyne, to pay into 
 the hands of the faid officer the fum of 
 
 on account of. the charges, 
 made by General Glover, for the expenditure upon the 
 march, upon account of the troops, eight thoufand two hun- 
 dred and fifty-two pounds, feven (hillings, and lixpcnce, 
 ftcrling. 
 
 It is engaged, on the part of Major General Heath, to re- 
 fund to Major General Phillips, or the commanding officer 
 of the troops of the Convention for the time being, the fum 
 dcpofited as above agreed, or fuch parts of them aslhall be re- 
 deemed by the delivery of provifions within the time above 
 limited. 
 
 • IV. It is mutually agrfced, between the contracting parties, 
 that everything herein contained (hall beconflrued in a liberal 
 fenfe; and particularly, that no advantage (hall be taken of 
 any delays beyond the time limited for the delivery of provi- 
 iions, provided luch delays appear to arile from accidents of 
 the fea or weather. 
 
 To this agreement we have mutually pledged our faith and 
 words of honour, this 2d day of April, 1778. 
 
 Extract of a Letter to his Excellency Sir WlHiatn Howe.* 
 
 S T R, Rhode- If and, Llpril 9, 1778. 
 
 After much duplicity, and, I believe, fome debate, in 
 the Council of Bofton, upon the expediency of detaining 
 “ me in defiance of the vote of the Congrefs, I am arrived 
 “ at a place where I can write to your ^Excellency without 
 f‘ reftraint.” 
 
 Maj. Gen. Heath infilled that all the expences incurred 
 by the Convention troops ffiould be difcharged in folid coin, 
 according to the refolve of Congrefs. Had the refufal of 
 this demand affe&ed only my departure, I fhould not have 
 fuftered any perfonal confiderations to have interfered with 
 the interefts of government, but thould, at Ieaft, have waited 
 a further explanation of your pleafure than I could under- 
 
 * The three paragraphs diftinguiffied by inverted commas were 
 pet inferted in the copy lent to Lcrd George Germain. 
 
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 fl-and from Mr. Com mi (Vary Clarke. But General Heath ex- 
 tended the matter to much more lerious ground, declaring the 
 delay of payment muft neceiTarily enhance the price of pro- 
 vifions to he troops, and intimating that it was not certain 
 that a fuDply could be had at all, the ftock of money in the 
 treafury being exhaufted, and the purchafing contradors find- 
 ing frequent difficulties in obtaining cattle upon Ciedii, even 
 
 at advanced prices. , .. ^ 
 
 i was clear in my opinion, that the direaion of your Ex- 
 cellency, fent me verbally by Mr. Clarke, to ceclare againft 
 payment for anv provifions, in cafe the Convention was broke, 
 taking it for granted they would not dare ftarve the troops, 
 did not apply to this cafe ; becaufe, whatever may be the pri- 
 vate and juft fentiments of every perfon who confiders the re- 
 vive of fufpenfioh, to declare it broken now , would be play- 
 ing their own game ; they would immediately make ufe of 
 that declaration as conclufive, and put it out of the power of 
 government at home either to ratify and enforce the execu- 
 tion of the Convention, ftiould they find means fo to do, con- 
 sent with the dignity of the ftate, or to exa& fo full a repa- 
 ration for the violation, fhould that be the refolution at home, 
 as they may do, provided there exifts not a colour of violation 
 on our part. What they have hitherto alledged, as reafons for 
 their refolves, muft be judged by the world, not only to be 
 without colour, but fhort of a moonfhine fhadow. 
 
 Upon thefe circumftances, I ft udied for expedients to fc- 
 cure the troops from the dangers threatened by non-payment, 
 and at the fame time evade the exorbitancy of the demand, 
 
 I availed myfelf of the alternative given by the Congrefs to 
 return provifions in kind, and, after fome trouble, my ftipu- 
 lation was accepted for procuring provifions from Rhode- 
 Ifiand, or New-York, at limited periods, a fum of money 
 equivalent to the quantity that ftiould not be forth-coming im- 
 mediately to be lodged in the hands of General Heath, as a 
 depofit, and to be refunded to the officer commanding the 
 Convention troops for the time being, whenever the provi- 
 fions ftiould arrive. Fortunately the ftores here are in con- 
 dition to liquidate the whole account; therefore the depofit 
 is unneceffary. Many thoufand pounds are faved to govern- 
 ment, and no difpute in regard to what is paft remains. I fub- 
 mit to your Excellency, whether a continuance of this method 
 to difcharo-e the provifion accounts will not be the moft uefi- 
 rable for the future, provided the King’s ftores in America 
 can afford it, and whether, for that purpofe, it might not be 
 expedient to augment the ftores at Rhode-IQand ? ^ „ 
 
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 The above difficulty thus removed, there remained a heavy 
 account in regard to fuel for the troops from the time of their 
 arrival, and the provifion, fuel, and other incidental expenses 
 upon the march from Saratoga, and advanced by Brigadier- 
 General Glover. I had the good fortune, after much alterca- 
 tion, to make a great abatement upon thefe demands, by pay- 
 ing only the original coil of things, in fpecie, according to the 
 price of the country, and all the contingencies of carriage, 
 deliveries, &c. &c. v/hich went to great amount in paper. I 
 conceived no further difficulty in fulfilling the agreement, as 
 your Excellency had informed me an hundred thoufand 
 pounds were fen t for the ufe of the troops under my orders. 
 A commifTary of the enemy, therefore, accompanied me to 
 Rhode-lfland to receive the fums. 
 
 Tf he reft of the one hundred thoufand pounds I propofed to 
 fend to Major Genera! Phillips, by the hands of the pay- 
 mafter, whom I brought with me for that purpofe, having firft 
 engaged a parole and efcort for the fecure paftage of my milita- 
 ry cheft, to be fent to the army unopened. I think a fum to 
 this amount indifpenfibly expedient in the hands of that Ge- 
 neral, not only to difeharge the fubfiftence to the army, fome 
 ©f which is in arrears, particularly the Germans, but alfo for 
 fuch other contingent purpofes as were explained between 
 your Excellency and Mr. Clarke, “ and concerning which 
 I lately fent a meftage by — — — 
 
 I think it the next duty to the army lately under my orders, 
 to ftate to you. Sir, the very extraordinary expence the offi- 
 cers are expofed to in their prefent fituation. Exaction is 
 added to fcarcity at Cambridge, and every article of life is at 
 price. I am confident in your Excellency’s 
 jufticc and goodnefs, to include thofe troops in the order of 
 bat and forage money for this year, though they do not take 
 the field. The officers will be ruined or ftarved, if they have 
 not that gratuity. If lodging money is allowed to the other 
 parts of your army, I truft alfo they will be comprifed in the 
 order. General Phillips requefted me to lay before you the 
 * neceffity of his having a fecretary, and his hopes you would 
 
 allow his pay as a contingency. 
 
 I have nov*7. Sir, to report to you a matter upon which f 
 have been very much embarrafted. 
 
 I he day I parted »ro;n Sir Guy Carleton he put into my 
 hands a letter from Lord Barrington, fignifying the Kind’s 
 approbation of the appointment of brigadiers in Canada the 
 preceding year, but ftating the expediency of their ferving as 
 fuch in your army, there being fenior lieutenant colonels 
 WithoUi. that ranx j and therefore ordering that thofe gentle- 
 
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 men fhould revert to their former {ituations as lieutenant co- 
 lonels immediately upon their marching cut of Canada. . 
 
 Had Lord Barrington thought proper to communicate to. 
 me this idea before 1 left London, I think I fliould have been 
 able to convince him of the impropr;ety of removing them at 
 the very time of the fervice for the purpofe of which they 
 had been created, and of the impoiiibihty of condu ling an 
 army without regularity, with an entire vacuum of ftaflf be- 
 tween the lieutenant general and a lieutenant colonel ; for 
 Major General Phillips being confdered as appropriated to 
 the artillery, fuch was the cafe. As it was, I thought myfelf 
 juftified in taking the fpirit, not the letter, of his Lordfhip’s 
 order ; and it being clearly explained, that the only reafon for 
 diflolving the appointment of biigadiers was to prevent the 
 clafling of rank after a junction of the armies, I judged I 
 could "not be blameable for withholding the notification of 
 the order till the jun&ion was made, inftead of putting it in 
 force o-eographically upon quitting Canada. Since my arrival 
 here, 1 have found a letter from General Harvey, approving 
 the above meafure, and l truft, Sir, it will not be difapproved 
 by you. The only Britifh brigadier with the troops is Ha- 
 milton, ; there are two Germans, Speclit and Gall. It will 
 be for vour Excellency to decide what (hall now be their fate, 
 and to write your pleafure thereupon, as well as upon all 
 other articles refpe&ing the troops, to Major General Phillips, 
 
 “ Lord Howe will have informed you. Sir, of my ideas 
 ct communicated to him (in order to be fubmitted to you) 
 
 <( by means of Captain Green, refpe&ing the exchange of 
 «C the Convention troops. My ideas were formed upon the 
 «c knowledge I have of the feelings of the men in general. 
 <t They are not only in a high ftate, as foldiers, by the ex- 
 64 perience and trials of the laft campaign, but have a zeal 
 «< i n their caufe, and a refentment againft the enemy,^ that 
 44 would give them double ftrength. Should you not find it 
 ‘ 4 advifeable or practicable to exchange the whole, I would 
 “ next fubmitthe great acquifition it would be to the ftrength 
 of Canada, to exchange the flank companies of the 29th, 
 44 31ft, 34th, and 53d regiments, which regiments are now 
 44 in that country, inftead of fending thofe companies to 
 « Britain, in cafe "the treaty fhould be at laft ratified. . . 
 
 44 Having mentioned the fubject of exchanges,” permit me. 
 Sir, to offer "to your confutation the great merit of Major 
 General Phillips. He properly belongs to Canada ; his zeal 
 made him folicitous to come forward and purfue the whole 
 courfe of the campaign ; his fervices have been confpicuoifc ; 
 
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 and, all things confidered, I would fubmit, whether a fenio- 
 fity of captivity, arifmg from the accident by which Major 
 General Prefcott was taken, gives that officer a preference of 
 firetenfion in point of exchange? 
 
 I beg leave alfo to recommend to your notice Captain Leche 
 of my regiment, who was taken upon the paflage of the re- 
 giment from England, and has been ever fince in the pro- 
 vince of the Mafiachufets. The commifl'ary thinks the di- 
 lfance, and his being the only officer of that corps, has occa- 
 fioned his being overlooked by your commilTaries, as younger 
 prifoners, he thinks, have been exchanged. 
 
 I fee the difficulty of effedling the exchange of individuals 
 of the Convention troops ; but I dare fay I {hall in treat your 
 goodnefs by the bare mention of the cafe of Lieut. Wheete, 
 - of the 20th regiment. An eftate of 20CC>1. per annum ac- 
 tually depends upon his perfonal appearance in the court of 
 Chancery. 1 ftated this matter to the Congrefs, but they voted 
 his return inexpedient. I requeft you. Sir, if you find ft 
 confiftent with propriety, to make a frefh application to Ge- 
 neral Wafhington, for leave for his return upon his parole. 
 
 Captain Strangways, brother to Lord Ilchefter, has alfo 
 calls of family bufinefs of a very important nature ; and I 
 fhould be much obliged for any affiftance of the fame nature 
 you might think proper to give. 
 
 I mull: clofe this long feries of bufinefs with a report of the 
 conduit of Enfign Bevil of the 62d regiment, in whofe cha- 
 racter I was deceived, when l recommended him to your Ex- 
 cellency for a corrrmiffion. He has abfeonded from the army, 
 in breach of his parole, and in debt, to a confiderable amount, 
 at Cambridge. 
 
 There is reafon to fuppofe he meant to go to Philadelphia 
 or New- York. I think it probable. Sir, you may fend him 
 back a prifoner to the enemy ; at all events, I conclude vou 
 will fufpend him ; and, in that cafe, I would recommend to 
 his vacancy Mr. Higgins, if you have not already been fo 
 good to place him elfewbere. 
 
 I have avoided to mention myfelf, in fpeaking of exchanges. 
 An idea has obtained among the enemy that Lee was to be 
 made a lieutenant general ; I have been alfo told that a ma- 
 jor general and a colonel might be accepted for a lieutenant 
 
 general. In all cafes, I put myfelf into your hands, and 
 wifh to add, as an appendix to myfelf, my fecretary and depu- 
 ty adjutant-general, Lieut. Col. Kingfton, confident that I 
 need Dot expatiate upon the fatisfa&ion I fhould feel at being 
 put again in a fimation to ferve under you as foon as my 
 
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 health will enable me. I truft that a very fhort time at Bath 
 will effeft that purpofe. 
 
 I have only to add my truft that you will continue to me 
 the friendfhip and confidence with which you have always 
 honoured me, and that you will write to me at full, by the 
 firft opportunity, how I can be employed toferve your views. 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 With great refpedt, and inviolable attachment, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Yourmoft faithful, and moil obedient fervant, 
 
 (Signed) J. Burgoyne. 
 
 ARTICLES of agreement, entered into at Newport, on 
 Rhode-liland, on the tenth day of April, Anno Domini , one 
 thoufand feven hundred and feventy-eight, between John . 
 Morrifon, Efq. deputy commiflary-general, on behalf of 
 Major General Pigot, and Samuel Barrett, Efq. agent for 
 fupplies, on behalf of Major General Heath. 
 
 Whereas there is not a fufficiency of beef in the ftores at 
 Newport to fatisfy and pay the demand made by Mr. Com- 
 miflary Miller, for his fupply of that fpecie to the troops of 
 the Convention ; it is agreed, on the part of Mr. Morrilon, 
 that a quantity of pork, equal to the deficiency of beef, at the 
 rate of eighteen ounces of pork for twenty-four ounces of beef, 
 fball be depofited on board the victuallers now bound to Bo- 
 lton, and fent there forthwith, under the care of Mr. George 
 Leonard, afliftant deputy commiflary, and to remain in his 
 cuftody forty days from the feventh of this inftant, April, be- 
 ing the day of the arrival of his Excellency, Lieutenant Gene- 
 ral Burgoyne, at Newport, before a demand fhall be paid there 
 for, on the part of Mr. Commiflary Miller. 
 
 And it is further agreed, on the part of Mr. Barrett, that, 
 in cafe a quantity of beef, fufficient to difcharge the balance 
 due to Mr. Commiflary Miller, for fupplies to the troops of 
 the Convention to the firft of March laft, fhall arrive at Bo- 
 lton within the forty days ftipulated as aforefaid, addrefled to 
 the care of Mr. Commiflary Leonard, then, in that cafe, the 
 faid George Leonard fhall fatisfy and pay the (aid balance in 
 beef, and be permitted to return with the pork aforefaid to 
 
 Newport. • 
 
 And it is further agreed, that if the faid Mr. Commiflary 
 Miller will agree to receive four pounds of pork for feven 
 pounds of beef! in that cafe, Mr. Leonard fhall deliver the 
 
 1 pork 
 
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 pork in payment for Paid beef, within the time limited as 
 aforefaid. 
 
 And it is further agreed, on the part of Mr. Morrifon, that, 
 if a quantity of beef, fufficient to pay the balance due to Mr'. 
 Commifl'ary Miller, forfupplies to the period aforefaid, fhould 
 not arrive and be delivered by Mr. Commifl’ary Leonard to 
 Mr. Commifl'ary Miller, in full of the deficiency aforefaid, or 
 a quantity of pork be accepted by him in lieu thereof, in the 
 proportion fpecified in the article next preceding within the 
 faid term of forty days, then, in that cafe, the quantity of 
 pork fpecified in the firft article fhall be paid to the faid Mil- 
 ler, in the proportion therein ftated, for faid deficiency. 
 
 And it is alfo further agreed, as the true intent and mean- 
 ing of the parties herein named, that, if Mr. Commifl'ary 
 Leonard fhould not have a fufficicncy of beef addrefled 
 to his care, on or before the expiration of the faid forty 
 days, to fatisfy the whole demand that Mr. Cornmiflary Mil- 
 ler has made, for his fupply of that fpecie to the troops of the 
 Convention, to the 28th of February, Mr. Commifl'ary Mil- 
 ler will, in that cafe, receive luch quantities of beef as Mr. 
 Cornmiflary Leonard may deliver him, towards difeharging 
 his demand for that article, and the deficiency in pork, ac- 
 cording to the proportion fettled in the firft article of this 
 agreement. 
 
 And it is further agreed, on both fides, that a quantity of 
 bread and flour, equal (at the rates of the prices fpecified in 
 Mr. Commifl'ary Miller’s account of fupplies to the troops 
 of the Convention) to the quantity of beef which may be de- 
 ficient, (hall be put on board the vidluallers, and fent to Bo- 
 fton, to the addrefs of Mr. Leonard, in addition to the quan- 
 tities fent to repay thofe fupplied, in the refpedlive fpecies, to 
 remain as a depofit during the aforefaid term of forty days. 
 And that, in cafe the deficient quantities of beef aforefaid do 
 not arrive and be delivered to Mr. Cornmiflary Miller within 
 faid time, or a quantity of pork equivalent to the fame, in 
 conformity to the firft article, then the faid bread and flour 
 be paid and received in payment for the Erne, at the rates 
 aforefaid. 
 
 And, to prevent all poflible mifunderftanding, refpe&ing 
 the quantities of provifions refpedtively demanded and to be 
 fhipped for payment, it is agreed, that the demand made on 
 the part of Mr. Commifl'ary Miller is as follows, to wit, fix 
 hundred and forty-feven thoufand one hundred and thirty- 
 four pounds of bread, eight hundred and ninety-feven thou- 
 fand feven hundred and fifty pounds of beef, thirteen thoufand 
 4 feven 
 
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 (even hundred and ninety-fix pounds of pork, one hundred and 
 four thoufand and twenty-eight pounds of rice, two thoufand 
 eight hundred and fifty-three pounds of foap, one thoufand five 
 hundred and fifty-nine pounds of candies, five hundred and 
 eighty pounds of fi ur, twenty-nine anu ope quarter gallons of 
 rum . one hundred and eighty four quarts of fait : and that the 
 pro' ifions (nipped and co be fnipped towards fatisfying faid 
 demand, fubje£t to the regulations of the preceding articles, 
 (hall be as follows ; viz. one hundred and feventy-four tbou- 
 fand and forty pounds of beef, two hundred and fifty-eight 
 thoufand one hundred and nxty pounds of porx, nine hundred 
 and fixtv-four thoufand eight hundred and thirty-two pounds 
 of bread and flour, a quantity of rice and peas, equal, at Mr. 
 Comrniflury Miller’s rate and mode of i (filing thofe ieveral 
 fpecies, to one hundred and four thoufand and twenty-eight 
 pounds of rice, twenty -eight hundred and fifty-three pounds 
 of foap, fifteen hundred and fifty-nine pounds of candles, 
 twenty-nine 2nd one quarter gallons of rum, and one hun- 
 dred and eiohty-four quarts of fait : and that, as there will 
 (fill be a deficiency in the article of beef, equal, by calcula- 
 tion, exclufive of accidental deficiency in weight and quality 
 of the provisions fent for the purpofe of fatisfying the demand 
 aforefaid, at the rate of prices charged by Mr. Commiflary 
 Miller, for that fpecie, in his account of fupplies to the troops 
 of the Convention, from the fixth of November, one thou- 
 fand feven hundred and feventy-feven, to the firA of March, 
 one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-eight, to the amount 
 of four thoufand four hundred and fifty-three pounds, lawful 
 money of Mafiachufets-Bay, at the rate of fix (hillings per 
 collar ; which faid lum of four thoufand tour hundred and 
 fifty-three pound?, lawful money, as aforefaid, is to h-. paid 
 by Major General Pigot into the hands of Samuel Barrett, 
 Efquire, and Major Jonathan Pollard, to remain as a depoiit 
 for (aid deficiency with Major General Heath, for the afore— 
 faid term of forty days, at the expiration of which term, 
 fhould the deficiency aforefaid be paid in beet, or fuch other 
 fpecie as is before agreed to be taken in lieu thereof; faid ium 
 to be refunded into the hands of Major Geneial Phillips, 
 otherwife to remain and be received in payment for beef and 
 fuch other articles as may he deficient after delivery of 
 the provifions (hipped and to be (hipped, as aforefaid, con- 
 formably to the agreement entered into between his Excellen- 
 cy Lieutenant General Burgoyne, and Major General Heath, 
 
 on the fecond of this inftant April. 
 
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 And for the due performance and fulfilment of each and 
 every the foregoing articles, we, the fubfcribers do feverally 
 and mutually pledge our faith and honour, hereunto inter- 
 changeably fetting our hands and feals, this tenth day of 
 April, Anno Domini , one thoufand, feven hundred and feven- 
 ty-eight. 
 
 o. , f John Morrison. (L. S) 
 
 & ne ’ 1 Samuel Barrett. (L. S.) 
 
 Atteft, Witnefs, 
 
 Jonathan Pollard, James Clarke. 
 
 James Clarke. 
 
 (A true Copy.) 
 
 Infractions from Major General Pigot to Major Morrifon , 
 Deputy Commijjary , about /applying the Convention Troops 
 with Provifion. 
 
 SIR, Newport , April II, 1778. 
 
 AS the prefent mode of victualling the troops of Lieute- 
 nant General Burgoyne in the Mafl'achufets- Bay is attended 
 with many difficulties, you will hold yourfelf in readinefs to 
 proceed with the flag that returns with Major Pollard, aid de 
 camp to Major General Heath, and Mr. Samuel Barrett, 
 agent for fupplies ; and, upon your arrival at Bofton, you 
 will immediately wait upon Major General Heath, and en- 
 deavour to fettle with him the proportion of one fpecie for 
 another, which may ferve as a rule in paying for fuch provi- 
 fions as may have been furnifhed by him for the ufe of Ge- 
 neral Burgoyne’s troops. In the accomplifhment of this bu- 
 finefs, you will adhere to the rules by which the army under 
 Sir William Howe are victualled, and ufe your beft endea- 
 vours that thofe rules and regulations be adopted and admit- 
 ted, or as nearly as may be, on the part of General Heath, for 
 the payment of fuch provifions as may have been, or hereaf- 
 ter may be, furniflied to the troops of General Burgoyne, 
 that in future there may be no difficulty in adjufting thofe 
 accounts. 
 
 As it is neceflary that thofe troops fliould be victualled in 
 the fame manner as the other Britifh troops in America are, 
 you will endeavour to obtain from General Heath his per- 
 miffion for the admittance of fuch victuallers into the harbour 
 of Bofton, as may hereafter be neceflary for furnifliing the 
 proper fupplies of provifions for the fubfiftenoe of the afore- 
 faid troops, fo long as they may remain in the province of 
 
 Mafl'achufets- 
 
Ixxxv 
 
 CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 MafTachufets-Bay ; thefe provifions to be fubje£l to the m- 
 fpeftien of fuch officer as General Heath may appoint, to 
 prevent the introdu&ion of any article contrary to the true 
 intent and meaning of the permiffion he may grant for the 
 admittance of fuch viauallers as may be neceflary for the 
 
 purpofes aforefaid. # 
 
 In cafe you (hould accomplifh this agreement with Gene- 
 ral Heath, you will likewife obtain from him the fulleft af- 
 furances, that the provifion hereafter to be (hipped (hall be ad- 
 mitted into the harbour of Bofton, and truly and honourably 
 delivered to the commiffary of provifions, or his deputy, in 
 General Burgoyne’s army, and that he (hall have free liberty, 
 without any hindrance or moleftation, to iflue the fame to the 
 army, according to fuch rules and regulations as are efta- 
 blifhed, or may hereafter be eftablifhed, by Major General 
 Phillips, or the officer commanding thofe troops. 
 
 X am, Si/., 
 
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 Return of Provifions fhipped on Board the undermentioned Vi&uallers, in Purfuance of an Agreement, 
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CANADA PAPERS. 
 
 lxxxvii 
 
 $ X R, Rhode- IJland, April 12, 1 7/^* 
 
 THt a 2 reement refpe&ing the provifions is fulfilled. 
 
 It having been reported ro^me that the mode of victualling 
 the troops of the Convention has been varied lately, viz. 
 that, in ilea d of meat, filh had been fubflituted, 1 am under 
 the neceffity of obferving, filh is not a culiomary icluallmg 
 for our troops; and as^the fcarcity of meat will be removed 
 by the quantity Cent from hence, I mud deiire the troops of 
 the Convention mav be fupplied with Englifh provifions : the 
 propriety of this is fo evident, that I am perfuaded no objec- 
 tion can lie againft it ; befides, it will effectually prevent all 
 cavil between the commillanes about the goodness of the 
 provifions. I thought it might be a mutual convenience to 
 fend a commiffary to regulate the future fupp'.y for the troops 
 of the Convention, that neither difficulty nor difpute may 
 arife. Major Morrifon goes upon this bufinefs. 
 
 I am oDiiged to you, Sir, for the accommodations I re- 
 ceived on my journey, which were very much to my fatisfac- 
 
 tion, and am, SIR, 
 
 Your ir.oft obedient fervant, 
 
 Maj. Gen. Heatb. J- BuRGOYNE. 
 
 N. B. A copy of this letter was fent to Major General 
 
 Phillips. 
 
 SIR, Rhode-Ipnd, April 13, 1778. 
 
 IN older to fettle every thing relative to fupplying the 
 troops of the Convention with provifions, I have dire&ed 
 Major Morrifon, commiflary general, to accompany Major 
 Pollard and Mr. Barrett to Major General Heath, and fhall 
 be obliged to you for furnifhing him with the neceflary paiT- 
 ports. I am alfo to thank you. Sir, for your attention to- 
 wards me, and the accommodations I met with upon my 
 journey, in confequence of your orders. 
 
 Maj. Gen . Spencer . (Signed) J. BuRGqyne 
 
 



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