Note 1207 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Cf. also two valuable letters written during the siege from Washington to Heath, who commanded on the Hudson, in 5 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., iv. 224 et seq. We note two early tables of the prisoners taken, one in the Meshech Weare papers in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, and the other in the Sparks MSS., xlix. vol. iii. The vote of thanks given by Congress to Washington, with his reply, is in Journals of Congress, iii. 694. Washington's epaulettes worn at the time are in the Mass. Hist. Soc. (Proc., iii. 133). For "Cornwallis Burgoyned", see Moore's Songs and Ballads, 367.—Ed.