8 "The people who remained in that part of the country," [Weslclietter-couiily,] " through which they pass'd, have been most cruelly plun- " dered ; many helpless women had even their shifts taken from their " backs by the soldiers' wives, after the great plunderers had done ; and, " in this general ravage, no discrimination was made of Whig or Tory." (lA^Uer from Stamford, A&tei "12th Nov. 1776," published in The Freeman's Journal, or New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I., No. 28, Portsmouth, Tuesday, December 3, 1776.)

f [Galloway's] lleply to the Observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe on a pamphlet entitled Letters to a Nobleman, 17, 18.

On the general subject, see, also. General McDougal to Colonel De Witt, "White-Plains, 7 November, 1776;" Letter to a Gentleman in Virginia, " Head-quarters, White-Plains, November 8, 1776," iinlilished in Force's American Archives, V., iii., 603 ; The Committee of Safety to the President of the Congress, " In Committee of Safety for the "State of New-Y'ork, Fishkill, November 20, 1776;" etc.

10 Vide pages 415, 416, ante.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1Y83.

been issued, without having checked the career of robbery, General Washington was constrained to issue another, iu these words, sufficiently illustrative of the practices and of his views concerning them : " It is with a.stonishnient the General hears that some "Officers have taken Horses, between the enemy's " Camp and ours, and sent them into the country, for "their private use. Can it be possible that per- "sons bearing Commissions and fighting in such " a cause, can degrade themselves into plunderers of "Horses? He hopes every Officer will set his face "against it, in future; and does insist that the " Colonels and commanding Officers of Regiments im- " mediately inquire into the matter, and report to him " who have been guilty of these practices ; and that "they take an account of the Horses in their re- "spective encampments; and send to the Quarter- " master-general all that are not in some public " service." '