[Subscribed and sworn to before a commissioner, etc.]
STATE OF NEW YORK, _Niagara County, ss_:
Charles F. Harding, James H. King, Joshua H. Smith, William Seaman,
William Kennedy, William Wells, John Leonard, Sylvanus Staring, and John
Haggarty, being sworn, severally depose and say that they have heard
the foregoing affidavit of Gilman Appleby read; that they were on the
_Caroline_ at the time she was boarded as stated in said affidavit, and
that all the facts sworn to by said Appleby as occurring after the said
_Caroline_ was so boarded as aforesaid are correct and true.
[Subscribed and sworn to before a commissioner, etc.]
_Mr. Poinsett to General Scott_.
DEPARTMENT OF WAR, _January 5, 1838_.
Brevet Major-General WINFIELD SCOTT,
_Washington City_.
SIR: You will repair without delay to the Canada frontier of the United
States and assume the military command there.
Herewith you will receive duplicate letters to the governors of the
States of New York and Vermont, requesting them to call into the service
of the United States such a militia force as you may deem necessary for
the defense of that frontier of the United States.
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