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,