To expenses at Shaftsbury 0 7 8 To expenses in Jericho while raising men 1 0 5 To expenses of marching men from Jericho to Williamstown 1 4 0 May 1st.--To expenses at Allentown 0 6 8 To expenses at Massachusetts 2 4 6 " " " Newport 0 16 0 " " " Pawlet 1 3 3 " " " Castleton 1 6 0 To cash to a teamster for carting provisions 0 6 0 To cash to Captain Noah Phelps £1 and to Elijah Babcock £6 7 0 0 To cash to Colonel Ethan Allen's wife 3 0 0 To a horse cost me £20 in cash ($66.66), which I wore out in riding to raise the men and going to Ticonderoga, so that I was obliged to leave her and get another horse to ride back to Hartford 20 0 0 To my expenses from Ticonderoga back to Hartford after we had taken the fort 2 0 0 To my time or wages while going on said service, and going from Hartford to Philadelphia to report to Congress by Governor Trumbull's orders, being between thirty and forty days, much of the time day and night 20 0 0 The 3d of May, 1775, is an eventful day. Four scenes interest us. At Albany there is hesitation. Halsey and Stevens have been there to obtain permission for the Ticonderoga expedition. The Albany committee-men are alarmed, for the proposition seems to be hazardous. What will the New York Congress think of it? Will the next Continental Congress, to meet seven days hence, approve of it? The committee write to the New York Congress for instructions, suggesting that if New York goes in for the invasion it will plunge northern New York into all the horrors of war. A second scene is at Cambridge. The Committee of Safety, without waiting for permission from New York, decided to act. They issue a commission to Arnold without consulting the Massachusetts Congress, and authorize him to raise four hundred men in western Massachusetts and near colonies for the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point; they give him money and authority to seize and send military stores to Massachusetts. We can imagine Arnold quickly in the saddle, for the enterprise suits his genius.