[New York] August 7th General Washington sent A flag of Truce into Lord How, is Reported that informd, that if any of the British Troops shoud, fall into our Hand that he shall Treat them as Prisoners of War, but as to the forren Troops he shall not give them any Quarter
August the 9th at evening the 6 Rowgalleys that ware up the River, movd down against the City, by the best information the Enemy are now about 12 or 15 thousand strong, that Governor Dunmore is now with the fleet at the Island.ー
1."Diary of Ensign Caleb Clap, of Colonel Baldwin's Regiment, Massachusetts Line, Continental Army, March 29 until October 23, 1776, " The Historical Magazine, 3rd series, III, 249. Hereafter cited as "Caleb Clap Diary," The Historical Magazine.
