Note 740 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

There is a map of their route and a view of their encampment at this place in Anburey's Travels, which last is reproduced in Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 552. Cf. also the print as published by Wm. Lane, London, Jan. 1, 1789 (Catal. Cab. Mass. Hist. Soc., p. 89, no. 612). The command of the encampment in Virginia was given to Col. Theodorick Bland, Jr., and copies of some of his papers are in the Sparks MSS. (no. xli.). The Bland Papers, edited by Chas. Campbell, were published at Petersburg, 1840-43. Accounts of the troops' sojourn in Virginia are given by Anburey, Riedesel, and Eelking. Cf. also Jefferson's Writings (i. 212); lives of Jefferson, by Tucker (i. ch. 5), Randall (i. 232, 285), and Parton (p. 222); Howison's Virginia (ii. 250); Lowell's Hessians. On October 26, Jefferson had urged upon Washington the removal of the convention troops, as it might not be possible to protect them in case of an invasion of Virginia (Sparks MSS., lxvi.). In November the English troops were removed to Fort Frederick. Large numbers deserted (Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., ii. 324).—Ed.