Sir:
You are to apply to His Excellency Govr. Clinton, who will order a Guard of an Officer and
twenty Men from the Militia of Ulster County to attend at Newburg to receive the prisoners of War
at present at Fishkill and conduct them to Easton in Pennsylvania. You will direct the Officer to apply
at that place for a Continental Guard to escort them to Lancaster, if there are any Continental troops
there. If there are not, he is to apply to the nearest Officer of Militia. You will send off the prisoners
from Fishkill as soon as possible.
