1. British officer Lt. Col. Stephen Kemble’s account of the evacuation of Elizabeth, N.J., differs from the accounts given by GW and other Americans. According to Kemble, the orders to evacuate the town were issued on 7 Jan. and carried into effect the next day when the Waldeckers and 71st British Regiment marched to Perth Amboy, and the 7th and 26th regiments marched to Elizabeth Point and were transported to Staten Island. Although Kemble does not mention the loss of any men during the evacuation, he says that “about 3 in the Afternoon sent the Flat Boat for some Rum and Provisions that had been carried by mistake to the lower ferry, in the attempt to take which off She was seized by the Rebels, and a Sloop fired upon” (Kemble Papers description begins [Stephen Kemble]. The Kemble Papers. 2 vols. New York, 1884-85. In Collections of the New-York Historical Society, vols. 16–17. description ends , 1:106). In another version Philipp Waldeck, the chaplain of the 3d Waldeck Regiment, inexplicably dates the evacuation 9 Jan. in his diary (see Learned, Waldeck’s Diary description begins Marion Dexter Learned, ed. Philipp Waldeck’s Diary of the American Revolution. Philadelphia, 1907. description ends , 26–27). For accounts similar to the one that GW sent to Hancock, see Nathanael Greene to Thomas Paine, 9 Jan., in Greene Papers description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends , 2:3–4, William Heath to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 12 Jan., MHi: Heath Papers, and Wilson, Heath’s Memoirs description begins Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed. Heath’s Memoirs of the American War. 1798. Reprint. New York, 1904. description ends , 118. Heath, who identified the prisoners captured as Waldeckers and Highlanders, says the baggage was taken from an enemy schooner.