Colonel Henry Ludington: A Memoir

by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Dear Sir,

I have Inquired into the Character of the Said Jno. Crabb and find him to be an Enemy to his Country therefore shall Expect he will be Treated as Such and am Sir

Your Very humble Serv’t

Henry Ludinton, Colo.

Sept’r 10: 1777.

To Colo. David Demmon.

A few days later Colonel Ludington himself wrote to Putnam:

Philipse Burgh Sept’r 12th 1777.

Sir,