. The works of Washington Irving. nd ensign, to any respectable personwho should raise a company of seventy men ;the latter to receive British pay. A descent upon I<ong Island, to counteractthese projects, was concerted by General GeorgeClinton of New York, and General I,incoln ofMassachusetts, but men and water craft werewanting to carry it into effect, and the toryenlistments continued. They were not con-fined to l^ong Island, but prevailed more or lesson Staten Island, in the Jerseys, up the Hudsonas far as Dutchess County, and in WestchesterCounty, more especially. Many of the loyal-ist
. The works of Washington Irving. nd ensign, to any respectable personwho should raise a company of seventy men ;the latter to receive British pay. A descent upon I<ong Island, to counteractthese projects, was concerted by General GeorgeClinton of New York, and General I,incoln ofMassachusetts, but men and water craft werewanting to carry it into effect, and the toryenlistments continued. They were not con-fined to l^ong Island, but prevailed more or lesson Staten Island, in the Jerseys, up the Hudsonas far as Dutchess County, and in WestchesterCounty, more especially. Many of the loyal-ists, it must be acknowledged, were honorablemen, conscientiously engaged in the service oftheir sovereign, and anxious to put down whatthey sincerely regarded as an unjustifiablerebellion; and among these may be clearlyclassed the De I^anceys. There were others,however, of a different stamp, the most notori-ous of whom, at this juncture, was one RobertRogers of New Hampshire. He had been aworthy comrade of Putnam and Stark, in some. TRogcrs tbc Kcnegaae 26 r of their early enterprises during the Frenchwar, and had made himself famous as majorof a partisan corps called Rogers Trumbull described him as a fa-mous scouter and wood-hunter, skilled in way-laying, ambuscade, and sudden attack. Hisfeats of arms had evidently somewhat of theIndian character. He had since been governorof Michilimackinac (1766), and accused of aplot to plunder his own fort and join theFrench. At the outbreak of the Revolutionhe played a skulking, equivocal part, and ap-peared ready to join either party. In 1775,Washington had received notice that he wasin Canada, in the service of Carleton, and hadbeen as a spy, disguised as an Indian, throughthe American camp at St. Johns. Recently, on learning that he was prowlingabout the country under suspicious circum-stances, Washington had caused him to be ar-rested. On examination, he declared that hewas on his way to offer his secret services toCon
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