BRITISH PRISONERS TAKEN BY THE AMERICANS ON LONG ISLAND

KINGS BRIDGE, August 29, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: I send to your care and safe keeping the following
prisoners of war, taken on _Long Island_, on the 27th instant viz:
Lieutenant _John Ragg_, of the Marines, Sergeant _David Wallace_,
Corporal _Thomas Pike_ and _Edward Gibbon_, _William Smith_, _Isaac
Hughs_, _Thomas Haraman_, _John Woodard_, _Edward Cavil_, _William
Williams_, _William Coortney_, _Stephen Weber_, _John Smith_, _Samuel
Morral_, _Thomas Sarral_, _Joseph Distant_, _Benjamin Jones_, _William
Jones_, _William Pearce_, _John Hopkins_, _Henry Weston_, _Evan
Evans_, and _John Morten_, Privates.

You will please to secure them in such manner as to prevent their
escape, observing the order of Congress in this respect.

I am, gentlemen, with Esteem,
Your humble Servant
W. HEATH, Major General.

To the Committee of the Town of Fairfield [Conn.]

[_Force_, 5th Series, vol. i, p. 1215.]

[No. 59.]

A RETURN OF THE PRISONERS TAKEN IN YORK DURING THE CAMPAIGN 1776

[Transcriber's Note: For readability, the vertical text in the
following table has been reduced to abbreviations, as follows:

Gn--Generals
Co--Colonels
LC--Lt. Colonels
Mj--Majors
Ca--Captains
Lt--Lieutenants
En--Ensigns
Ch--Chaplains
QM--Q. Masters
Ad--Adjutants
Su--Surgeons
Cm--Comissaries
Eg--Engineers
WM--Wagon Masters
Vo--Volunteers
Pr--Privates

Other text has been abbreviated as follows:

8/27--Augt. 27th
9/15-16--Sept. 15 & 16th
10/12--Octr. 12th
11/16--Novr. 16th
11/18--Novr. 18th

L.I.--Long Island
Y.I.--York Island
W.P.--White Plains
F.W.--Fort Washington
F.L.--Fort Lee]

WHEN WHERE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS STAFF OFFICERS & PRIVATES.
TAKEN
Gn Co LC Mj Ca Lt En Ch QM Ad Su Cm Eg WM Vo Pr WOUNDED

8/27 L.I. 2 3 4 2 18 3 11 3 -- 1 3 -- -- -- 3 1006 9 Officers,
56 Privates.

9/15-16 Y.I. -- 1 2 3 4 7 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 354

10/12 W.P. -- -- -- -- 1 2 -- -- 1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 35

11/16 F.W. -- 4 4 5 56 107 31 1 2 2 5 2 1 1 -- 2637 6 Officers,
53 Privates.

11/18 F.L. -- -- -- -- -- 1 1 -- 1 -- 3 -- -- -- -- 99

Total 2 8 10 10 79 160 43 4 4 3 11 2 1 1 3 4131

Copy

CHATHAM Jany 30th 1777

P.S. The original