[749] Cf. Bellin's Petit Atlas Maritime (1764), vol. i.
[750] Cf. a MS. map by John Montresor, surveyed by order of General Gage, and dated Sept. 18, 1766, which is among the Faden maps (no. 96) in the library of Congress. A plan by Montresor in 1775 of New York et Environs, with the harbor in the corner in much detail, measuring about 48 inches wide by 22 high, is among the Rochambeau maps (no. 23) in the same library.
[751] A Draught of New York harbor from the Hook to New York town, by Mark Tiddeman, was issued by Mount and Page in London, and is reproduced in Valentine's New York City Manual, 1855. (Cf. also Ibid., 1861, p. 628.) There is another (1776) in the North American Pilot, no. 24, which was published separately as A Chart of the Entrance of Hudson's River from Sandy Hook to New York, with the banks, etc. (London, Sayer and Bennett, June 1, 1776). One was made in 1779 by Robert Erskine; and another is contained in the Neptune Americo-septentrional, no. 19.
A map of New York and Staten Island, with intervening waters, made by order of General Clinton in 1781, is noted in the King's Maps (Brit. Mus.), ii. 355. Cf. N. Y. City Manual, 1870, p. 845. A MS. draft of Long Island Sound and the entrance of New York harbor is among the Faden maps (no. 54) in the library of Congress.
[752] Known as the Hickey Plot. It is detailed in the Minutes of the trial and examination of certain persons in the Province of New York, charged with being engaged in a conspiracy against the authority of the Congress and the liberties of America (London, 1786,—Menzies, no. 1,400), which was reprinted (100 copies) as Minutes of Conspiracy against the liberties of America, at Philadelphia in 1865. The ringleader was one of Washington's life guard, Thomas Hickey, who was hanged in June, 1776. David Matthews, the mayor of New York, was implicated, and Governor Tryon was charged with a knowledge of the plot. Matthews was arrested and confined in Connecticut (Orderly-book of Sir John Johnson, 214, 215). Cf. N. Y. in the Rev. (papers in N. Y. Merc. Library), p. 66; Irving's Washington, ii. 232; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., xxiii. 205; Johnston's Campaign of 1776, Doc. 129.
[753] N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1866, p. 69.
[754] Sparks's Washington, iii. 451; Journals of Congress, June 3 and July 19, 1776; Journal of Algernon Roberts on an expedition to Paulus Hook, in Sparks MSS., no. xlviii.; Johnston's Campaign of 1776, p. 113. The New Jersey militia were acting in concert under Livingston. There is a journal of a Lieut. Bangs among them, from April to July. N. Jersey Hist. Soc. Proc., viii.
[755] Cf. letter, Aug. 4, from Staten Island, in Lady Georgiana Cavendish's Mem. of Admiral Gambier, copied in Hist. Mag., v. 68.
[756] Naval Chronicle, xxxii.
[757] Greene's Greene, i. 158.