[918] Cf. Eelking, ch. 6, and Du Portail in Mahon, vi. App. 27.
[919] Bisset's George III., ch. 19, 25; N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., April, 1879, p. 240, and July, p. 351; J. Watts de Peyster in Scribner's Monthly, April, 1880, p. 940.
[920] Cf. also Moore's Diary, 498; Pennypacker's Phœnixville, 101; Bell's address in Hazard's Register; Laurens Correspondence, 53; Hist. Mag., iii. 375; iv. 346; J. W. De Peyster in United Service, 1886, p. 318; and lives of Wayne by Armstrong and Moore.
[921] Howe's Narrative; the Conduct of the War; Ross's Cornwallis; papers on the war in Penna. Archives, 1st, v., and 2d, iii.; Thomas Paine's letter to Franklin (Penna. Mag. Hist., ii. 283); Penna. Evening Post; Watson's Annals of Philad.; Drake's Knox; Greene's Greene; Mem. of B. Tallmadge; Bancroft, ix. ch. 23, etc. Howe's proclamations during this period are noted in the Catalogue Philad. Library, p. 1553; Hildeburn's Issues of the Press (under 1777).
Congress fled to York, and occupied the old court-house, of which a view, in fac-simile of an old print is given in Mag. Amer. Hist., Dec., 1885, p. 552.
[922] Washington, v. 463; Dawson, 326; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Dec., 1866, p. 418; Amory's Sullivan, 57; and in part in N. H. State Papers, viii. 705.
[923] Sparks, v. 78, 86, 102; Dawson, i. 325; Heath Papers, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xliv. 76. Other contemporary evidence is in the letters of Wayne (Dawson, i. 328; cf. lives of Wayne); Gen. Adam Stephen (Sparks, v. 467): Gen. Armstrong (Dawson, 329); Knox (Drake, 52); William Heth (Leake's Lamb, 183). Other contemporary statements and documents are in Moore's Diary, 504; Penna. Archives, v. 646; Pa. Mag. of Hist., i. 13, 399, 400, 401; ii. 283; Tilghman's Memoirs, 160; Davis's Lacey, 48; Watson's Annals of Philad., ii. 67; Hist. Mag., xi., 82, 148; Moore's Laurens, Corresp., 54. Accounts of participants given at a later day are by C. C. Pinckney (1820), who was on Washington's staff (Hist. Mag., x. 202), and Col. J. E. Howard, who addressed a letter to Pickering in 1827, a copy of which in his own hand, with a rude plan, is in the Sparks MSS., no. xlix. vol. i., and it is printed in Sparks, v. 468.
[924] Cf. No. Amer. Rev., April, 1825, p. 381; Oct., 1826, p. 414; National Intelligencer, Dec. 5, 1826, and Jan. 27, Feb. 24, 1827. Cf. Hazard's Register, i. 49. On the 21st November, 1777, James Lovell at York expressed the discontent with Washington in a letter to Joseph Whipple at Portsmouth. He complained that the naval force at Fort Mifflin was not properly seconded by the land force; and adds: "I have reason to think the battle of Germantown was the day of salvation offered by Heaven to us, and that such another is not to be looked for in ten campaigns."
[925] Lives of Washington by Sparks (vol. i.), Irving (iii. ch. 23); of Greene by Johnson and Greene; Muhlenberg's Muhlenberg; the collated narrative in Dawson (i. 318); the military criticism in Carrington (ch. 51), and accounts in Bancroft (ix. 424,—controverted in Amory's Sullivan); Reed's Reed (i. 319); Sargent's André (p. 112); Lossing, Gay, etc. Cf. Lowell's Hessians (p. 197); notes in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc., ix. 183; Harper's Mag. (i. 148; vii. 448); Potter's Amer. Monthly (vii. 81); T. Ward on the Germantown Road, in Penna. Mag. Hist., v. p. 1, etc. At the centennial ceremonies in 1877 there were addresses by Judge Thayer and by A. C. Lambdin (Penna. Mag. Hist., i. 361).
[926] Cf. Stedman (i. ch. 15); Mahon (vi. 163); Hamilton's Grenadier Guards (vol. ii.). Also see Wilkinson's Memoirs, i. 369, for Howe's orders; Hunter's diary in Moorsom's Fifty-second Reg., 20; Lord Lindsay in Memoirs of Admiral Gambier (Hist. Mag., v. 69); Harcourt in Evelyns in America, 244.