Note 10 — CHAP. XXIV.

I have just said that we were ordered to leave the colony, and that all were overjoyed with the news, myself excepted. But on the 15th, by letters from Holland to our chief, our return was again countermanded for six months. My companions were therefore suddenly cast down with disappointment, while I was as suddenly revived, and now determined to save all my pay until Joanna’s redemption should be fully accomplished: but what grieved me very much was the other news from Europe, viz. that the Scots Brigade had been invited to England by his Britannic Majesty, while I was lamenting that I could not possibly be one of the number10. I at the same time had the offer of an American company under General Washington, but this I refused without any hesitation, as may be supposed.