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1782 
March        From
    30th      Robert Severs
                   Esq.

Northampton County
Philadelphia
Secretary of ___________War
Major General Lincoln
The Honorable
Public Service

Sir                                                                           Easton March 30th 1782

Yesterday in the afternoon a certain Person who called himself James [Yaing?], was brought before me, on suspicion of being a Prisoner of War, belonging to Lord Cornwallis's captured Army, he said he had at Norfolk in Virginia a deserted from the British (& belonged to the 33[?] Regiment) before the Surrender; has from many circumstances, being convinced he was no deserter, I committed him to the [Gaol] in this Town, giving [series unders to ?] him, least he might have letters & [ca?] with him_ In consequence of which it appears, by a discharge, found with him, from the Hospital at Norfolk, dated the 22nd July 1781, his name is James [Bruce], a Corporal in [Sr. Col.?] Balper's Company of the 23rd Regiment, and he has since confessed he is a Prisoner of War, that at York in Pennsylvania he was with a Party of Six to hunt wood, and took that opportunity to make his Escape, and came [this] far, on his Way towards some Relations he has in the Jerseys, at some distance from Brunswick. That he had no intention to attempt to go to New York. He is a Searchman. I have since wrote to the keeper of the [terry] to examine

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1782 March From

   30th      Robert Severs
                  Esq.

Northampton County Philadelphia Secretary of ___________War Major General Lincoln The Honorable Public Service

Sir Easton March 30th 1782

        Yesterday in the afternoon a certain Person who called himself James [Yaing?], was brought before me, on suspicion of being a Prisoner of War, belonging to Lord Cornwallis's captured Army, he said he had at Norfolk in Virginia a deserted from the British (& belonged to the 33[?] Regiment) before the Surrender; has from many circumstances, being convinced he was no deserter, I committed him to the [Gaol] in this Town, giving [series unders to ?] him, least he might have letters & [ca?] with him_ In consequence of which it appears, by a discharge, found with him, from the Hospital at Norfolk, dated the 22nd July 1781, his name is James [Bruce], a Corporal in [Sr. Col.?] Balper's Company of the 23rd Regiment, and he has since confessed he is a Prisoner of War, that at York in Pennsylvania he was with a Party of Six to hunt wood, and took that opportunity to make his Escape, and came [this] far, on his Way towards some Relations he has in the Jerseys, at some distance from Brunswick. That he had no intention to attempt to go to New York. He is a Searchman. I have since wrote to the keeper of the [terry] to examine