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King' s Bridge, August 29, 1776.
SIR: With the detachment under your command, taking into your custody and safe keeping the following prisoners of war, viz: Lieutenant John Ragg, of the Marines, Sergeant David Wallace, Corporal Thomas Pike, and Edward Gibbon, William Smith, Isaac Hughs, Thomas Haraman, John Woodard, Edward Cavil, William Williams, Wm˙ Coortney, Stephen Weber, John Smith, Samuel Morral, Thomas Sorral, Joseph Distant, Benjamin Jones, William Jones, William Pearce, John Hopldns, Henry Weston, Evan Evans, and
I am, sir, yours, &c.,
To Lieutenant Nathan Umstead.
Orders by General Heath for Lieutenant Umstead
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John Mortan, Privates, — you are to escort them with all possible expedition to Fairfield, in the Colony of Connecticut, where you are to deliver them to the Committee of that place, and then without delay return to this post.
W˙ HEATH, Major-General.