Note 936 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

The contemporary accounts of it are in the Annual Register, 1778, p. 264; Gent. Mag., August, 1778; Moore's Diary, ii. 52; Bland Papers, i. 90; Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., i. 242, 718. André played a conspicuous part and described it (Sargent's André, 168; Lossing's Two Spies, 46). Israel Mauduit made it the occasion of a severe condemnation of Howe in his Strictures on the Philadelphia Mischianza, or Triumph upon leaving America unconquered (London, 1779,—Sparks Catal., no. 2,550). Later accounts will be found in the Lady's Mag. (Philad., 1792); Anna H. Wharton's Wharton Genealogy, and her paper in the Philadelphia Weekly Times, May 25, 1878; Watson's Annals, vol. iii.; Egle's Penna., 185; Mrs. Ellet's Women of the Rev., i. 182, and Domestic Hist., etc., ch. 12; Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 303. Views of the Wharton house and other illustrations are in Smith and Watson's Lit. and Hist. Curiosities; Lossing; Scharf and Westcott (i. 377-380).