78 Journal and Correspondence

September 4

count of the Depredation, which have been committed by the Enemy,
we refer you to M^r Henry Sewall who will deliver you this
We are with all due respect Your Excellency & Honours most
Obedient & very Humble Serv^ts

Nicho^s Sewall W Belwood Robert Watts
N Lewis Sewall Rob^t Jarboe Thomas Dillen
Geo: Biscoe William Holton

N. B. Application having been made to the Lieutenant of this
County, for a Temporary relief without Effect, Occasioned this
Address

September 5
Red Book
No. 26
Letter
No. 28

[Edwd Giles, Ph'a, to His Excellency Govr. Lee]

Sir I have the Satisfaction to inform your Excellency that I
have obtained Arms &^c & also a Warrant for clothing for the Regi-
ment. The Cloathing is at Morris Town to which Place I have sent
to Secure it. Hats of a very good Quality, we shall obtain in a few
Days, an Express having been dispatched Yesterday to Lancaster
to order fifteen hundred to be sent immediately from that Place.
We are to have a uniform Coat, Wollen Jacket & Overalls, one
Shirt and one Hat p^r Man. The Board of War inform me, that a
large Quantity of Wollens are now fulling to make Blankets of, part
of which we may expect to obtain before Winter sets in. The Board
as well as our Delegates, advise me, not to march from here, till
I have the Men properly cloathed & till the whole joins us there is
no immediate Call for men I have wrote to his Excellency the Gen-
eral on this Subject & shall wait his further Orders. The Time we
spend in this City shall be employed in getting the men acquainted
with the use of the Fire Lock, of which they are now amazingly
ignorant. On my first Arrival I waited on the Delegates & the
Board of War, I received their orders to Land the Men & march
them to the Barracks. We have very good Quarters & are well pro-
vided with Provisions. Tis whispered that we are to be sent to the
southward.
I have the Pleasure to inform your Excellency that the Acc^ts from
Gen^l Gates's Army appear to be rather exaggerated, as an officer
arrived at this City yesterday from N York, who reports that he
read in the N York Paper an Acc^t of the Action near Cambden to
the following Effect. That our Army had been successful in several
Skirmishes viz. the two Generals meeting near Cambden on the
16^th a general Action ensued, that the Militia gave way on the first
fire, I left the Continentals unsupported, who being hard pressed by
Lord Cornwallis, retreated & were pursued for four miles with con-
siderable Slaughter. It mentions no officer of Distinction either
killed or taken Capt Higgins the Gentleman alluded to, told this to
the Board of War in my Hearing.