ighland prisoners, mentioned on page
219, naming each one separately to be "safely kept in close confinement
until discharged by the honorable Congress or this Committee."[59] Four
days later, General MacDonald addressed a letter to the Continental
Congress, in which he said,

"That he was, by a party of horsemen, upon the 28th day of February
last, taken prisoner from sick quarters, eight miles from Widow
Moor's Creek, where he lay dangerously ill, and carried to Colonel
Caswell's camp, where General Moore then commanded, to whom he
delivered his sword as prisoner of war, which General Moore was
pleased to deliver back in a genteel manner before all his officers
then present, according to the rules and customs of war practised in
all nations; assuring him at the same time that he would be well
treated, and his baggage and property delivered to him, &c. Having
taken leave of General Moore and Colonel Caswell, Lieutenant-Colonel
Bryant took him under his care; and after rummaging his baggage for
papers, &c., conducted him to Newbern, from thence with his baggage
to Halifax, where the Committee of Safety there thought proper to
commit him to the common jail; his horses, saddles, and pistols, &c.,
taken from him, and never having committed any act of violence
against the person or property of any man; that he remained in this
jail near a month, until General Howe arrived there, who did him the
honour to call upon him in jail; and he has reason to think that
General Howe thought this treatment erroneous and without a
precedent; that upon this representation to the Convention, General
McDonald was, by order of the Convention, permitted, upon parole, to
the limits of the town of Halifax, until the 25th of April last, when
he was appointed to march, with the other gentlemen prisoners,
escorted from the jail there to this place. General McDonald would
wish to know what crime he has since been guilty of, deserving his
being recommitted to the jail of Philadelphia, without his bedding or
baggage, and his sword and his servant detained from him. The other
gentlemen prisoners are in great want for their blankets and other
necessaries.

Donald McDonald."[60]

The Continental Congress, on September 4th, "Resolved, That the proposal
made by General Howe, as delivered by General Sullivan, of exchanging
General Sullivan for General Prescot, and