Informs her that Gen. [Henry] Knox ordered him to Englishtown to
attend a wounded officer and mentions other wounded officers; describes
the village of Englishtown and mentions that its situation makes fever
and ague flourish and that the place is naturally poor and rendered poorer
because the army encamped there a few days; informs her that he went
to see two Tories executed at Monmouth Court House, [N.J.) "but they
were turned off a few minutes before I arrived"; mentions the arrival of
the French ambassador to Congress [Conrad Alexandre Gerard) and the
arrival of the French fleet off Sandy Hook; expresses hope that the British
will leave America in a few months and that each Continental regiment
will be sent to its own state; [postscript): informs her that when the British marched through New Jersey they burned houses and plundered "without distinction of Whig or Tory" and remarks: "fine! encouragement for Tories."
