The London Chronicle, March 13-15, 1777, sold by J. Wilkie. Red tax stamp. America — New York — Rogers’ Rangers — "We have it from undoubted authority, that the men belonging to Col. Rogers’s rangers, who were taken prisoner by the Rebels near East Chester, were led through Litchfield in chains, and treated in a very barbarous manner. They were on their way to Exeter goal in New Hampshire. The congress ordered them to be put in chains."
Letter of Mr. Joseph Trumbull, son of the Governor of Connecticut, an American Commissary-General, Camp, near North-castle, Dec. 28, 1776—"Sir, I returned to camp last Saturday, when I found the army like a clan of wandering Arabs, in these confounded mountains of woods, and every thing in hurry and confusion…. I foresee the greatest difficulty in raising a new army, and nothing under heaven can save us, but for the enemy’s going to the southern colonies, which may give us an opportunity to rectify our mistake, and put matters on the footing they ought to be."
Letter from New York: "The churches here are full of American prisoners, who, I am informed, die so fast, that 15 or 20 of them are buried at a time." General Howe and the 42d regiment’s battle near Brunswick, New Jersey. Extract of letter on board his Majesty’s ship, Daphne, dated Jan. 18: Fort Lee—"General Washington summoned Fort Constitution (about fourteen miles hence) with 700 men, to surrender to him yesterday, which was refused. A reinforcement was sent this morning, and they have had smart work, but we have not heard who are the conquerors." [Fort Constitution was an American Revolutionary War fort located on the crest of the Hudson Palisades in what was then Hackensack Township, New Jersey.].
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