[REVOLUTIONARY WAR - QUEBEC SIEGE]. [ARNOLD, Benedict]. Manuscript petition signed by Capt. Jacobus S. Bruyn, and Lieutenants Cornelius T. Sanson, Philip Dubois Bevier and J. Grigg, TO BENEDICT ARNOLD, n.p. [Canada?], n.d. [early 1776]. 1 page, 4to, minor dampstain, docketed on verso. Petition addressed to Arnold "Commander in Chief of the Forces now before Quebec," complaining that in a reorganization of New York regiments, they have received "a far more Junior rank than the prior nomination made by General Montgomery November last..." They decline their commissions, but pledge, when the cause demands, to "readily reenter in the service...." -- COOKE, Samuel, Surgeon, Continental Army (1738-1783). Autograph letter signed ("Samuel Cooke"), probably to General James Clinton, "Head Quarters before Quebec," 6 January 1776. 1 page, 4to, verso docketed "Dr. Cook announces defeat at Quebec." A New York surgeon with the Canada expedition reports on the American defeat and begs for medical assistance: "Before this you have heard I doubt not of our defeat. Our loss is too great in so good a cause and we have more than forty officers killed & taken [prisoner]. Our Regiment is praying for your arrival...for we are sheep without a shepherd....Pray be pleased to order my mate [fellow surgeon] down we have great numbers of sick & wounded. I understand he has been...as far as Point a Trembles & returned again to Montreal...." --COOKE, Samuel. Autograph manuscript "Account of the Names of Prisoners taken at the Parish of St. Peters...Canada...." 1½ pages, 4to, docketed "An acct. of Prisoners taken below Quebec." The list contains some 44 French and English names arranged in two columns; at the head is "Revd. Mr. Borga wounded in the Belly." On the back Cooke notes that some men were "taken by a party of Continental & Canadian troops under...Major Lewis Dubois." Provenance: See note preceding 316. (3)