and most humble servant,

Archibald Campbell,
Lieut. Col. 2d Bat. 71st Regiment.

P.S. On my arrival at Boston I found that Captain Maxwell, with the
Light-Infantry of the first battalion of the Seventy-First Regiment,
had the misfortune to fall into the hands of some other privateers,
and were carried into Marblehead the 10th instant. Captain Campbell,
with the Grenadiers of the second battalion, who was ignorant, as we
were, of the evacuation of Boston, stood into the mouth of this
harbor, and was surrounded and taken by eight privateers this
forenoon.

In case of a cartel is established, the following return is, as near
as I can effect, the number of officers, non-commissioned officers,
and private men of the Seventy-First Regiment who are
prisoners-of-war at and in the neighborhood of Boston:

The George transport: Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell;
Lieutenant and Adjutant Archibald Campbell; Lieutenant Archibald
Balneaves; Lieutenant Hugh Campbell; Quartermaster William Ogilvie;
Surgeon's Mate, David Burns; Patrick McDougal, private, and acting
Sergeant-Major; James Flint, volunteer; Dugald Campbell, ditto;
Donald McBane, John Wilson, three Sergeants, four corporals, two
Drummers, ninety private men.

The Annabella transport: Captain George McKinzie; Lieutenant Colin
McKinzie; Ensign Peter Fraser; Mr. McKinzie and Alexander McTavish,
volunteers; four Sergeants, four Corporals, two Drummers, eighty-one
private men.

Lord Howe transport: Captain Lawrence Campbell; Lieutenant Robert
Duncanson; Lieutenant Archibald McLean; Lieutenant Lewis Colhoun;
Duncan Campbell, volunteer; four Sergeants, four Corporals, two
Drummers, ninety-six private men.

Ann transport: Captain Hamilton Maxwell; Lieutenant Charles Campbell;
Lieutenant Fraser; Lieutenant----; four Sergeants, four Corporals,
two Drummers, ninety-six private men.

Archibald Campbell,
Lieut. Col. 2d Bat. 71st Regiment."[166]

On account of the treatment received by General Charles Lee, a prisoner
in the hands of Sir William Howe, and the covert threat of condign
punishment on the accusation of treason, Congress resolved, January 6,
1777, that "should the proffered exchange of General Lee, for six
Hessian field-officers, not be accepted, and the treatment of him as
aforementioned be continued, then the principles of retaliation shall