[Note:Anthony Walton White. He became lieutenant colonel of the Third New Jersey Regiment Jan. 18, 1776; lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Continental Dragoons in February, 1777; and colonel of the First Continental Dragoons in 1780. He was captured at Lanneaus Ferry, May 6, 1780, and exchanged in October of that year; retired Nov. 9, 1782. ]
Sir: I could not let Mr. White depart this camp without paying you the tribute of a letter. When I wrote to you last I thought it not at all unlikely that he might have been one of my Family before this, as I was not sanguine in my expectation of the Gentleman's (to whom I had written before I had spoke to y'r son on this Subject) coming this way. By the last Post I received a Letter from him, (that is Mr. Harrison,) informing me of his having received my Invitation, tho' long after date, and that he should immediately set out for this Camp; whereupon I advis'd Mr. White, as I learnt by a letter from a Member of Congress, that two Battalions were to be raised in the Jersey's to repair there without loss of time, being firmly persuaded that his merit would entitle him to an honorable appointment in one of the other of those Corps.
For the occurrences of this Camp I must refer you to Mr. White, who can relate matters more circumstantially than my time, or the limit of a Letter, will enable me to do. With great esteem I remain, etc. 55
[Note:The text is from the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute. ]