4th COMPANY. Captain Dalston, 1st Lieut. Moore. 5th COMPANY. Captain Stretch, 1st Lieut. Nugent, 2d Lieut. D'Oyley. 6th COMPANY. Captain Davys, 1st Lieut. Carey, 2d Lieut. Bowman. 7th COMPANY. Captain Adair, 1st Lieut. Carter, 2d Lieut. Ellis. 8th COMPANY. Captain Groves, 1st Lieut. Dogherty, 2d Lieut. F. Lewis. GRENADIERS. Captain Logan, 1st Lieut. Brisbane, 2d Lieut. Ragg. LIGHT INFANTRY. Captain Pitcairne, 2d. Lieut. Dyer, 2d. Lieut. Nicholas. It was farther intimated upon the same day, "That in consequence of the application of Major Pitcairne to have the same allowance for paying the Companies of the 1st and 2d Battalions of Marines, serving on shore in North America, as the Army have, and that the Captains should be answerable for the debts, &c. "The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, ever ready to give every reasonable mark of their indulgence, were pleased to consent that each Captain, commanding a Company, should be allowed after the rate of 1s. per day; being equal to the pay of two men per Company, during their continuance on shore, as is practised in the Army; and the Deputy Paymaster is authorized to issue the same. "The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have been pleased to approve Major Pitcairne's appointing Mr. Smith Quarter-Master to the 2d Battalion of Marines." General Washington having been appointed to command the Armies of America, he, in company with Major General Lee, reached the camp before Boston, in order to animate them in the general pursuit of continental independence. Their military spirit had arrived at such a height, that the younger branches of Quaker families at Philadelphia, waiving their principles, associated themselves in arms. Boston continued to be blockaded during the year, with but little variety. The rebels did not confine their hostile views to this object alone. A number of partizan adventurers sprung up, whose rapid motions and unknown existence under Colonels Easton, and Ethan Allen, were the means of achieving some conquests of much importance to their infant cause. Their intermediate object was to seize upon the passes on the great lakes, which command the intercourse between Canada and the British Colonies, until their Government, (for so I now call it,) was enabled to advance a force sufficiently adequate to conquer that Province. This they effected by surprizing the garrisons of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.