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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--NEW YORK.) Elliot, Andrew. Letter negotiating for a large-scale exchange of prisoners. Letter Signed as Superintendent-General of British-held New York, to Elisha Boudinot as the American Commissary of Prisoners. 2 pages, 12 x 7 1/4 inches, plus integral blank; early repairs to folds. (JMR) New York, 8 March 1779
This British official's cordial letter seems to offer his full support for a prisoner exchange, but he lacked the authority to act: "As I understood from Mr. Pintard that you wisht I would endeavor to have some mode of exchange settled for such prisoners . . . it was my wish to give every assistance to any such plan that General Clinton might chuse. . . . I shall endeavor to procure the list you desire, and would wish to have a similar one from you, that if anything is fixd in regard to exchanging no delay may happen." with--an unrelated pass signed by Commissary of Prisoners John Adam, Elizabeth, NJ, for paroled prisoner William Phillips to return to Goshen, NY. Elizabeth, NJ, 13 December 1780.
