In Obedience to your Commands of the 17th Ulto I have Exchanged a number of the Convention Officers who were Ordered to Elizabeth Town for the purpose of going into New York, against and for Officers of similar Ranks in possession of the Enemy as ⅌ the inclosed return No. (1).

I have also Exchanged Lt Colonel Hamilton and others Claimed by the State of Virginia as their Prisoners for Colo. George Mathews now out on Parole and a number of our Lieutenants as ⅌ the inclosed List No. (2). There still remains in possession of the Enemy One Brigadier, Seven Colonels Two Lieutenant Colonels, One Captain and thirteen Lieutenants, for whose Release I proposed the Exchange of General Burgoyne and a Ballance of Privates due to me amounting to 271 Men, as ⅌ the inclosed No. (3). The Enemy refuse to accede to this Proposition unless the Proposal Contained in No. 4 is carried into execution, and We Consent to the Exchange of the Prisoners taken at the Cedars.

I shall thank your Excellency for your further Commands on this Subject and to be informed whether I am Strenuously to insist on the Exchange of General Burgoyne previous to any other Negociation. I am sir with great respect Your Excellency’s Mo. Obt Hume Servt