Henry Hugh Fergusson to Benjamin Franklin, December 26, 1776

[December 26?, 1776 10 ]

An Express arrived last night to Lord Stormont with an account of a defeat of the americans, the English said to have lost 200 men, to have taken 74 pieces of Cannon and at the time the news came off a party of the Americans consisting of 1400 said to be surrounded in fort Washington.

H. Fergusson

The affair said to have happened the 24 octor.