Sir

Agreable to your directions, through your Secretary, We have disposed of the Prisoners of War sent us Pr. General Heath in the following Manner Viz.-

Lieut. John RAGG and his Servant Benjamin JONES We have sent to the Committee of Middle Town.

Sergeant David WALLACE, Corporal Thos. PIKE, Edward GIBBON, William SMITH, Isaac HUGHS, Thomas HARRIMAN, John WOODWARD, Ed CAVIL, William WILLIAMS, William COOTNEY, Stephen WEBBER, John SMITH, Samuel MOORE, Thos. SORREL, Jos. DEFTANT, William JONES, William PEARCE, John HOPKINS, Henry WESTON, Evan EVANS, and John MORTON Privates We sent to the Committee of Wallingford, where they are placed in the Parishes in the interior part of the County agreable to Rules of Congress.

We should have sent them to Litchfield but upon enquery found that they already had a Number there. We hope the disposition will be satisfactory to your Excellency.

As we could find no Rule of Congress how the charges of marching them were to be defrayed; We took a Guard of a Sergeant and Six from our Battery, and advanced them a penny a Mile for their support.

Whether we have done right or not we do not know. The Men we were sensible could not be marched without support.

We should therefore take it as a favor if your Excellency would direct us to whom we are to look for their billiting for 11 Days, and the advanced Money for marching them to the places of their destination.

We are with the highest Esteem & Respect
Your Excellencys most Obt. hum. Servants
signed P Order
Thaddeus Burr Chn.

P.S.
Inclosed is the
Act as we have made it out.

His Excellency General Washington

Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 4, Reel 38, 29 August 1776 - 30 November 1776.

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