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petition of the merchants of, in relation to American affairs, i. 612.
Long Island, instructions of Washington to Putnam, relative to the seizure of tories on, ii. 158; British troops landed on, ii. 260, 262, 263; tories at the west end of, ordered by the New-York convention to be arrested, ii. 261; the best of Washington's troops at the battle of, never before engaged,