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NHG-P.777.023
12 Jul 1777:21,22,23 (2/5)
Boston, July 10, 1777. Extract of a letter [ ] an officer
of distinction in the American Army, dated Middle Brook,
June 28.
. . . [15 lines describing military activity]
I was at Brunswick last Sunday morning, just after the enemy
had left it; it was a most shocking scene of filth and
devastation. Never let the British troops upbraid the
Americans with want of cleanliness, for such dogs kennels as
their huts were, my eyes never behold.
[ ] their head quarters, Mr. Burton's house, where Lord
Cornwallis resided, stank so I could not bear to enter it. .
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This afternoon, by their motions, they are again retiring
to Amboy; a great number of houses are now afire; wherever
they go [ ] and [ ] mark their footsteps. We have all
the reason in the world to imagine they are going to New
England. We all know what we have to depend upon; therefore
sound the trumpet, and let the alarm go forth. You are
forewarned, if you are not fore armed, you will have nobody
to blame but yourselves, when your houses are plundered and
burnt, your young men butchered and your wives and children
abused, and led into captivity.
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