1Matthias Halsted to Virginia Delegates in Congress, 17 December 1780 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Halsted’s signature at the close of his statement is followed by an unsigned addendum of five lines in a different and unknown hand. The docketing note on the cover sheet erroneously attributes the statement to “Mathew Halstead.” The Subscriber Matthias Halsted of Elizabeth Town in the State of New Jersey, Who was a Prisoner of War & Confined in the Sugar House...