Tuesday 26. [September 1775]
The Second Division, consisting of three Companies, Vizt [Jonas] Hubbards, [John] Tophams, & [Simeon] Thayers under the command of Colo Green embark'd James Mc Cormick a private in Capt [William] Goodrichs company, tried by a Court Martial for the Murder of Reuben Bishop a Serjeant in Capt Williams's Company & receiv'd Sentence of death, but respited 'till his Excellency, General Washingtons pleasure be known, & Order'd to Head Quarters ー A number of our men Employed in bringing up provisions &c. ー Wrote his Excellency General Washington,2 & dispatch'd back, five of the Transports.
1. John Hancock Papers, III, 313, LC.
2. This, of course, was Arnold's letter of September 25, 1775.
