[New York] Die Sabbati 10 HO. AM. Feb. 17th, 1776;
Mr. [John Sloss] Hobart and Mr. Beekman reported that they, according to order, had waited on Major-Genl. [Charles] Lee, to know the source of his information, that Govr Tryon was procuring gunsmiths from this city, on board of his ship; that Genl. Lee having given them the particulars of his information, they had pursued the inquiry to every person of whom any information could reasonably be expected, and found that it arose from the circumstance of two journeymen gunsmiths having some time ago left the city, the one in the last packet for England, and the other now said to be in some part of the Jersey[s].
1. New York Provincial Congress, I, 305.