Lord Stirling for
Brigadier-General, be complied with."[61]

This being communicated to General McDonald he addressed, to the
Secretary of War the following:

"Philadelphia Gaol, September 6, 1776.
To the Secretary of War:

General McDonald's compliments to the Secretary of War. He is obliged
to him for his polite information, that the Congress have been
pleased to agree that Generals Prescott and McDonald shall be
exchanged for the Generals Sullivan and Stirling. General McDonald is
obliged to the Congress for the reference to the Board of War for his
departure: The indulgence of eight or ten days will, he hopes, be
sufficient to prepare him for his journey. His baggage will require a
cart to carry it. He is not provided with horses--submits it to the
Congress and Board how he may be conducted with safety to his place
of destination, not doubting his servant will be permitted to go
along with him, and that his sword may be returned to him, which he
is informed the Commissary received from his servant on the 25th of
May last.

General McDonald begs leave to acquaint the Secretary and the Board
of War, for the information of Congress, that when he was brought
prisoner from sick quarters to General Moore's camp, at Moore's
Creek, upon the 28th of February last, General Moore treated him with
respect to his rank and commission in the King of Great Britain's
service. He would have given him a parole to return to his sick
quarters, as his low state of health required it much at that time,
but Colonel Caswell objected thereto, and had him conducted prisoner
to Newbern, but gently treated all the way by Colonel Caswell and his
officers.

From Newbern he was conducted by a guard of Horse to Halifax, and
committed on his arrival, after forty-five miles journey the last
day, in a sickly state of health, and immediately ushered into a
common gaol, without bed or bedding, fire or candles, in a cold,
long night, by Colonel Long, who did not appear to me to behave like
a gentleman. That notwithstanding the promised protection for person
and property he had from General Moore, a man called Longfield Cox, a
wagonmaster to Colonel Caswell's army, seized upon his horse, saddle,
pistols, and other arms, and violently detained the same by refusing
to deliver them up to Colonel Bryan, who conducted him to Newbern.
Colonel L