[Long Island] Wednesday, Sept. 11th. Some firing the Night past, tho' mistake, the Highlanders and our Seamen in Flat Boats. Our 1st. and 2d. Light Infantry on Montresors Island, 1st Brigade on Bohannas. Are informed that three Commissioners, Vizt. Franklin, John Adams and Rutledge, from the General Congress, had this day arrived at Staten Island, to Treat with Lord and General Howe. His Lordship only met them, and their Interviews short, as the Deputies from the Congress would treat on no other terms than that of Independent States.
1. "The Kemble Papers," Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1883 (New York, 1884), I, 87.
