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repeated it to them as above; upon which they seemed as tonished, and dismissed him til the next meeting: but they did not then make a board; which was the case afterward again, and again, till they finally deferred his case for a month; saying they should never be able to make a board else' and when he attended again there was nobody there but the Chairman, and he told him he might go about his business. Not feeling perfectly easy to travel thro' the Country on first day evening, we started fresh on 2.nd day morning, glad to be under way again, feel-ing our minds more and more drawn to our object as we proceed. Edward set us 5 miles on our way, and we rode as usual thro' a rugged and broken Country to Eusopus, a town of 80 or a hundred houses mostly well built with stone, an inscription on the Court House where we dined (for it was also a very decent Inn and the County Jail) informed us that the town was burnt by the British in the year 1777, so completely we were afterward told that just one house and one barn escaped the flames. This was done under the command of General Vaughan,who was then waiting, on board of the Transport in the North River, to facilitate the unsuccessful attempt of General Burgoyne,