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NJJ.779.010
18 May 1779:32 (14)
Last week a Mr. Zedwich, formerly a Lieut. Col. in our
service, was taken up at Roxbury, in Morris county,
endeavouring to get to the enemy. This traitor, in 1776,
was detected of holding a correspondence with Capt.
Vanderput of the Assia man of war; for which he was
sentenced, by a court-martial, to remain a prisoner during
the contest, and was sent to Reading, in Pennsylvania, where
he had his parole, and this is the third time he has
violated what a gentleman would deem sacred. The stratagem
he made use of to facilitate his escape was to disguise
himself in women's clothes, and forge a pass of a militia
colonel at Reading. He was, on Friday, sent in irons to
headquarters.
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