"While we were thus engaged the enemy succeeded much better in every
other quarter, & with little comparative loss. All were driven into
the fort and the enemy began by sundown to break ground within 100
yards of the fort.

"Finding our situation desperate Col'o Magaw dispatched a flag to
Gen. Howe who Commanded in person, proposing to surrender on certain
conditions, which not being agreed to, other terms were proposed and
accepted. The garrison, consisting of 2673 privates, & 210 officers,
marched out, grounded arms, and were guarded to the White House that
same night, but instead of being treated as agreed on, and allowed to
retain baggage, clothes, and Side Arms, every valuable article was
torn away from both officers and soldiers: every sword, pistol, every
good hat was seized, even in presence of Brittish officers, & the
prisoners were considered and treated as _Rebels_, to the king
and country. On the third day after our surrender we were guarded to
New York, fourteen miles from Fort Washington, where in the evening we
received some barrels of raw pork and musty spoiled biscuit, being the
first Morsel of provision we had seen for more than three days. The
officers were then separated from the soldiers, had articles of parole
presented to us which we signed, placed into deserted houses without
Clothing, provisions, or fire. No officer was permitted to have a
servant, but we acted in rotation, carried our Cole and Provisions
about half a mile on our backs, Cooked as well as we could, and tried
to keep from Starving.

"Our poor Soldiers fared most wretchedly different. They were crowded
into sugar houses and Jails without blankets or covering; had Very
little given to them to eat, and that little of the Very worst
quality. So that in two months and four days about 1900 of the Fort