Excerpt from Hugh Wynne Free Quaker, Vol. 2: Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of Excellency General Washington
On this night of the 2d of October, Jack told me we should move next morning or the day after. He had seen General Wayne on an errand for our colonel. "A strong talker, the general; but as ready to fight as to talk." In fact, ammunition was issued, and before dawn on the 4th the myriad noises of an army breaking camp aroused me. It was a gray morning over-head, and cool. When we fell into line to march. Jack called me out of the ranks.
"There will be a fight, Hugh. Mr. Howe has sent troops into Jersey, and weakened his hold on the village, or so it is thought. In fact, you know that, for it was you that fetched the news. If - I should get killed you - will tell your aunt - not to forget me - and Darthea too. And my father - my father, Hugh I have written to him and to Miss Wynne - in case of accident. The day before a fight Jack was always going to be killed. I do not think I ever thought I should be hit. I had, later in the war, a constant impression that, if I were, it would be in the stomach, and this idea I much disliked.
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