Part 17 (1/2)

NEWTON.--_Wounded_: Noah Wiswell, 1.

DANVERS.--_Killed_: Henry Jacobs, Samuel Cook, Ebenezer Goldthwait, George Southwick, Benjamin Deland, Jotham Webb, Perley Putnam, 7. _Wounded_: Nathan Putnam, Dennis Wallace, 2.

_Missing_: Joseph Bell, 1.

BEVERLY.--_Killed_: Reuben Kerryme, 1. _Wounded_: Nathaniel Cleves, Samuel Woodbury, William Dodge, 3.

LYNN.--_Killed_: Abednego Ramsdell, Daniel Townsend, William Flint, Thomas Hadley, 4. _Wounded_: Joshua Felt, Timothy Monroe, 2. _Missing_: Josiah Breed, 1.

TOTAL: Killed, 49; Wounded, 39; Missing, 5 = 93.

A CATALOGUE OF REVOLUTIONARY ARTICLES IN THE POUGHKEEPSIE MUSEUM.

The following are among the Collection of Curiosities in the Museum at Poughkeepsie:--

ORIGINAL Ma.n.u.sCRIPTS.

Letter of Was.h.i.+ngton to Governor Clinton, acquainting him of a design of the British to seize his person while residing at Poughkeepsie, and convey him to New York. Dated at Dobbs's Ferry, 1780.

Letter of Was.h.i.+ngton to Brigadier-General Whiten on the subject of the removal of the troops from Trenton to Philadelphia. Dated Plumpton Plains, New Jersey, 1777.

Letter of Was.h.i.+ngton on the subject of promotions in the army. Dated 1779.

Note of invitation from Was.h.i.+ngton to Dr. John Thomas to dinner. Dr.

Thomas was surgeon of the Ma.s.sachusetts line. Dated headquarters, Newburgh, 1780.

Soldiers' discharge, signed by Was.h.i.+ngton, 1782.

Letter of the Marquis de Lafayette on the subject of fortifying the North river. Written to Governor Clinton in 1778.

Letter of the Baron Steuben to Governor Clinton on the good appearance of the New York line of the army. Dated New Windsor, 1780.

Letter of Lord Stirling to Governor Clinton on the discharge of the command of Major Wessenfells. Dated Albany, 1782.

Letter of Clinton in reply.

Resolution drawn up in Congress, and signed by John Hanc.o.c.k, requesting the state of New York to erect a monument, at continental expense, to the memory of Brigadier-General Herkimer, killed on the Mohawk in 1777. Dated in Congress, 1777.

Letter of Captain Abraham Schenck, of Fishkill, containing an order for old linen rags, for lint, for the surgeon of his command. Dated near Croton, 1776.

Letter of General Heath relating to beacons in the highlands. Dated Robintson's House, 1780.

Letter of General Heath on the condition of the prisoners confined in the Provost prison, at West Point. Dated Highlands, 1780.

Letter of Captain Nathaniel Toms, describing a chase after the British over the Schuylkill in 1777.

Journal of Lemuel Lyon, of Woodstock, Vermont, who served in the French and Indian war, in the expedition against Ticonderoga, commanded by General Abercrombie. The journal commences on the 5th of April, 1758, and closes on the 16th of November, 1759.

Journal of Samuel Haws, one of the minute-men called out on the day of the battle of Lexington: commencing April 19, 1775, and ending in January, 1776.