[Extract]
Sir,

... John Pierpoint (who seemed willing enough to tell all he knew) informed me, that the Delaware frigate was given up by the pressed men on board, that there were but two brass cannon, 12 pounders, fired from the fort upon the frigate, and but one man killed in the fort, and one in the frigate; that she was manned with English & lay above the Town on Sunday morning when he came away....A M^r: Hus­bands told me, he saw upwards of two thousand troops at Chester on Monday last es­corting waggons, that were loaded from 13 ships, which lay there—that 4 men of war were then at the Chevaux de frize, and that 250 Hessians, who had crossed Schuylkill on the same day, proceeding down the neck towards Delaware, it was supposed to forage & plunder &c. ... with the utmost regard [&c.]

Newark.—
October 8^th: 1777.—