for the
assistance they have met with from Mr. James Ellice, of Schenectady,
merchant, they must have perished.

Your Memorialists therefore humbly pray Your Excellency will be
graciously pleased to take the distressed situation of said families
into consideration, and to grant that a flag be sent to demand them
in exchange, or otherwise direct towards obtaining their releasement,
as Your Excellency in your wisdom shall see fit, and your
Memorialists will ever pray as in duty bound.

John Macdonell,
Alexander Macdonell."

"To the Honourable Sir John Johnson, Lieutenant-Colonel Commander of
the King's Royal Regiment of New York.

The humbel petition of sundry soldiers of said Regiment sheweth,--

That your humble petitioners, whose names are hereunto subscribed,
have families in different places of the Counties of Albany and
Tryon, who have been and are daily ill-treated by the enemies of
Government.

Therefore we do humbly pray that Your Honour would be pleased to
procure permission for them to come to Canada,

And your petitioners will ever pray.

John McGlenny, Thomas Ross. Alexander Cameron, Frederick Goose, Wm.
Urchad (Urquhart?), Duncan McIntire, Andrew Mileross, Donald
McCarter, Allen Grant, Hugh Chisholm, Angus Grant, John McDonald,
Alex. Ferguson, Thomas Taylor, William Cameron, George Murdoff,
William Chession (Chisholm), John Christy, Daniel Campbell, Donald
Ross, Donald Chissem, Roderick McDonald, Alexander Grant."

The names and number of each family intended in the written
petition:--

Name of Family Consisting of No
1, Duncan McIntyre's Wife, Sister and Child 3
2, John Christy's Wife and 3 Children 4
3, George Mordoffs " and 6 " 7
4, Daniel Campbell's " and 5 " 6
5, Andrew Milross' Wife 1
6, William Urghad's Wife and 3 " 4
7, Donald McCarter's " and 3 " 4
8, Donald Ross' " and 1 Child 2
9, Allan Grant's " and 1 Child 2
10, William Chissim's " and 1 " 2
11, Donald Chissim's " and 2 Children 3
12, Hugh Chissim's " and 5 " 6
13, Roderick McDonald's " and 4 "