I returned Yesterday from a Visit to Mrs [Margaret] Livingston... In this Journey I learnt that the British Fleet on the Lake consisted of

1 Ship of 18 ー 12 lb
1 Schooner 14- 6 lb		Double fortified	Several double fortified 6 lb 4 ー 8 Inch Hawitzers
1 Do. ー 12 ー 6 lb
2 Gondolas 3-12 lb			28 Row-Boats from 18 to 12 lb
1 Rideaux 6 ー 24 lb		Brass	Several 8 Inch Hawitzers
1 Do. ー 12 ー 12 lb		Brass
	The American Fleet consisted of

This List was given to me the 24t. on the Road by a Doctor Thompson of our Neighbourhood just come from Albany who had it from Mr. Walter Livingston, to whom it was furnished by General Waterbury a Prisoner in one of the Vessels lately vanquished and discharged by Govr. Carleton, who after very kind Usages dismissed all the Prisoners upon their Parole not to serve in the American Army till others were restored in their Places ー The Prisoners report it as a Speech by Mr. Carlton's that he pitied them as deluded Subjects, but that if he took General Washington, Hancock, Adams and such Characters, he would send them to England to be executed as Traitors. ー Whether the Tenderness is to wipe off the Odium of the Affair of the Cedars or in Consequence of Advice or Orders from General Howe is uncertain ー Perhaps the Design is to win a Party in the Colonies to desert the Congress upon a Confidence that no others will be Sufferers on the Restoration of the old Governmt; and yet the last Accounts from below are that the Regulars have ravaged the Sea Coast from Frogs Neck to New Rochelle burn't many Houses & plundered the Effects of the Inhabitantsー