[June 27, 1776, cont.] & to
take Accounts of the Timber, Wood &c
we had cut & also to give
Certificates
for the Teams Boats Wood &c after I had
got it to the Landing, to the Q Master
General--
This Evening we hear
bad News from
Quebeck but as Reports
are So often false we can make no
Dependance on what we hear--
28 [June 1776] Slept very
Ill -- Mr Schuyler came
at 10 o'clock. we Spent the forenoon very
agreably, & got all the
Timber &c to the
Landing, the Afternoon was taken
up in giving Certificates making
up Accts &c this could not be finished
till after Sunset therefore and
as it was too late
to return to York I readily accepted
of Mr. Schuyler's Invitation to go with
him for the Night-- Spent the Evening
much to my Satisfaction. This Day
we heard of one Thomas Hickey a
Sol-
-dier in Genl Washington's Life Guard
being Executed for joining in the Plot men-
-tioned above, this man was a Deserter from
the Ministerial Army. He that is false to any
Party one Party is not to be trusted in another
it's opposite This Hickey was drawn into
the Plot by the persuasions of one Green
the Drummer for the Life Guard, Green also
was a Deserter. but is kept to
give Evidence to others against others--