ibility of Doubt but that the same was premature,
and furnished Genl. Arnold with a foundation to establish a
Character on the Ruins of a Man who to speak moderately has
rendered his Country as essential [?] Service as that Donquixote
Genl. whose reasons for evading a trial at a proper tribunal are
very obvious and fully set forth in my impeachment & which the
Genl. has had his pretended trial by which impeachment it fully
appears that Genl. Arnold was resqued from Justice by mere dint
of unlawfull authority exercised by Genl. Gates.

Your Petitioner relying on the Wisdom and Justice of Congress
begs leave to submit [?] himself most Respectfully their very
obedt. Humble Svt.

JNO. BROWN.
Petition [?]
9th June 1779 Honle JNO. JAY Esq.
Presidt. Congress

NOTE 4.

Sec.1. MILITARY RECORD OF JOHN BROWN.

_First._ Fourteen (14) days in Ticonderoga expedition, engaged in
capture. (See "Connecticut in Revolution," p. 32.)

_Second._ _Major_, Colonel Easton's Regiment, service from May 10,
1775, to December 30, 1775, in list of men who marched to Canada. (See
"Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors," vol. ii. p. 642.)

_Third._ _Major of the New York Line, Additional Corps_, Green
Mountain Boys. "Major Brown's detachment in Genl. Arnold's Regiment."
Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, Quebec, 1776. (See "New York in
the Revolution," vol. i. p. 61.) On list sent Provincial Congress of
New York, 4 July, 1775.

_Fourth._ _Lieutenant-colonel._ Colonel Samuel Elmore's Regiment,
raised for one year from Connecticut and Massachusetts, appointed by
Congress July 29, 1776, resigned March 15, 1777. Regiment took field
July, 1776, under General Schuyler. August 25, marched from Albany
into Tryon County. Posted remainder of term at Fort Stanwix. Broke up
in spring of 1777. (See "Connecticut in Revolution," p. 113.) The
Massachusetts roll states that John Brown was among the men who went
to German Flats April 1, 1776, and was discharged May 18, 1777.
Service, thirteen months, eighteen days.

_Fifth._ _Colonel Third Berkshire Regiment._ Commissioned April 4,
1777. Services in Northern Department not stated. April 14, 1780,
further appointment as Colonel. Service, three months, five days.
Killed October 19, 1780. (See Massachusetts Rolls.)

The above memoranda are imper