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Records of the revolutionary war; containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers names of the officers and privates of ... and enlistments general orders of W
Records of the revolutionary war containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers names of the officers and privates of and enlistments general orders of W Author:William Thomas Roberts Saffell This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...the agent for the prisoners in that city, to cheer him in his dungeon. In January, 1778, he was removed to New York. On the 3d December, 1... more »780, Mr. Skinner, the Commissarygeneral, advanced him 4000 continental dollars, which, at the enormous rate of depreciation then existing, profited him but little. He was exchanged June 1, 1781. General Washington, before he was properly acquainted with him, called him Ewing, which gave rise to many errors among historians about his name. To settle this question, he will be again referred to in a future page. Col. Nicholas Lutz, Of the Pennsylvania Flying-Camp, was captured at the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. On the 16th April, 1777, he was admitted to parole within certain bounds, and was exchanged September 10, 1779. He returned to his home at Reading, Pa., where he must have died shortly after, for it does not appear that he ever called on the commissaries of prisoners for any thing that may have been due him during his imprisonment and parole. Col. Michael Swope, Of the Pennsylvania Flying-Camp, a Fort Washington prisoner, was captured November 16, 1776. He was released on parole June 23, 1778, but again called into New York on the 8th of August, 1779, where he had to endure the confinement of his fellowprisoners, martyrs for patriotism. He was exchanged at Elizabethtown, N. J., on the 26th of January, 1781, and returned home to Yorktown, Pa., on foot, a distance of 170 miles. He was very well supplied by Mr. Pintard, at New York, with "Continental dollars," which he readily sold at the rate of seventy-five for one in specie in the spring of 1780! The current exchange of the day was forty for one in specie, but the poor prisoners, robbed of liberty, money, and life, could not get the advantages of...« less