Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . the fight, which wasan Englishman, named John Colman, with an arrowshot into his throat, and two more hurt. It grew sodarke that they could not find the ship that night, butlabored to and fro on their oars. They had so great astreame that their grapnel! would not hold them. The seventh, was faire, and by ten of the clocke theyreturned aboord the ship, and brought our dead manwith them, whom we carried on land and buryed, andnamed the point after his name, Colemans we hoysed in our boate, and raised her side withwaste boords for
Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . the fight, which wasan Englishman, named John Colman, with an arrowshot into his throat, and two more hurt. It grew sodarke that they could not find the ship that night, butlabored to and fro on their oars. They had so great astreame that their grapnel! would not hold them. The seventh, was faire, and by ten of the clocke theyreturned aboord the ship, and brought our dead manwith them, whom we carried on land and buryed, andnamed the point after his name, Colemans we hoysed in our boate, and raised her side withwaste boords for defence of our men. So we rodestill all night, having good regard to our watch. The eighth, was very faire weather, wee rode stillvery quietly. The people came aboord us, andbrought tabacco and Indian wheat to exchange forknives and beades, and offered us no violence. So wefitting up our boate did marke them, to see if theywould make any shew of the death of our man, whichthey did not. To be continued102 Governor ***** George Clinton F IFTEENTH PAPER. ILOOMY as was the situation of affairsduring the Spring of 1778 in manyrespects some important things wereaccomplished. The Highlands of theHudson were rendered so impreg-nable that the British never seriouslyattempted to secure them aside from the attempt bythe treason of Benedict Arnold more than two yearsafter this. In a letter of Governor George Clinton toGovernor Trumbull of Connecticut, written on thefirst of May of that year, he says that the new chainhad been drawn across the Hudson the day before andthat it exceeded the old one in point of strength. Theworks of defense at West Point were proceeding butwere yet far from completion. He urged the reinforce-ment promised from Massachusetts and Connecticut tothe garrisons of the Highlands. What occasioned the greater anxiety to Clintonthough was the frontier. From its length came everyweek tidings which filled the patriots with alarm. Thebanks of the Susquehanna and the Delaw
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