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VGW(HU.777.013
28 Mar 1777:61, 62 (1337)
Fish-Kill, February 27. Extract of a letter from an officer
at Morris Town, dated February 21, to the printer.
I received your favour from Fish Kill, and beg leave to
return you my thanks for forwardnig [sic] to me the letters,
&c. from Boston. It would give me the greatest pleasure to
furnish you with authentic intelligence, but the truth is,
we are as much shut up from news here as those in Simsbury
mines--Indeed it would be almost unnecessary to send news to
you, who seem to have such an excellent faculty at making
it. All that we have stirring here at present was brought
out by the three Hessian officers who (your papers says)
deserted some time ago from Brunswick. they say that the
300 British troops killed by us in the Quibbleton affair,
came to life shortly after; having only, in imitation of
Shakespear's fat knight, counterfeited death, in order to
avoid the fury of our brave militia. They are however to be
considered as prisoners, and to be exchanged for an equal
number of our men killed by Hugh Gaine of the city of New
York, printer, in the same action.
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