From Henry Hugh Fergusson
als: American Philosophical Society
[December 26?, 1776]

An Express arrived last night to Lord Stormont with an account of a defeat of the americans, the English said to have lost 200 men, to have taken 74 pieces of Cannon and at the time the news came off a party of the Americans consisting of 1400 said to be surrounded in fort Washington.

H. Fergusson

The affair said to have happened the 24 octor.
Addressed: Doctor Franklin
Notation: Ferguson
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