am Sir your very humble Servant
Henry Ludinton
To Theodorus Van wayk Esqs
P S I believe I am on track of a very Considerable deal of property conseald Belonging to Kain and Morison
This letter was addressed to “Theodorus Vanwayk Esqs pr Mr. Daniel Haselton For want of wafer this is not seald”.
The sternness of the dealings of the State with British sympathizers was strikingly shown in the law which was made by the State Convention on October 22, 1779, which ran in part:
Whereas during the present war … divers persons holding or claiming property within this State have voluntarily been adherent to the King, his fleets and armies, enemies of this State … whereof the said persons have severally and justly forfeited all right to the protection of the State and the benefit of laws under which property is held or claimed … Be it enacted that the said several persons hereinbefore particularly named shall be and are hereby declared forever banished from this State, and each and every one of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State shall be and are hereby declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy.
A mahogany table belonging to Colonel Ludington, at which, according to family tradition, Washington and Rochambeau dined.
(Now in the possession of Charles Henry Ludington)