The informant is a deserter from Cortlandts Regiment who fays he was carried off by force to the Indians and took the present opportunity of leaving them.... He appears not to be destitute of fhrewdness and as his apprehensions were pretty strong I am inclined to think as far as his knowledge extended he was sincere. . . . In my last I forgot to inform you that on the 15th instant at night Brigadier Gen. Wayne with the Light Infantry took itony point by assault. The whole garrison consisting of about 600 men with Col. Johnson commanding officer, fifteen pieces of cannon of different fizes & quantity of ftores fell into our hands. Our lofs in killed & wounded was lefs than an hundred, of which not above thirty will be finally lost to the fervice. . . General Wayne received a wound in the head . . . This affair does great honor to our troops who entered the works at the pont of the ba}X)net, fcarcely firing a gun. The post you may recollect was extremely formidable by nature and ftrongly fortified .... The enemy, it is faid, fupposed it capable of defying our whole force. The opposite point had it not been for fome unavoidable accidents would probably also fallen into our hands .... The enemy from these had time to come to its relief and have fince repofsed ftony point, which we evacuated and destroyed. I am with great regard Dr. Sr. (Duplicate) Yr. Obet. servt G Washington