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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 Compan of the 23rd Regiment, and he has since confessed he is a Prisoner of War,

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