Deposition of Col. Frederick Watts & Sam'l Henry
May 14, 1778

Bucks, ss.

Personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Bucks, Coll. Frederick WATTS and Saml. HENRY, and being qualified as the law directs, deposeth & sayeth, that on the first day of May Instant, a part of Gen^l LACEYs [sic] Brigade was attacked by a number of the Brittish [sic] Army, both Horse & Foot; the dispute was sharp, but their numbers being greatly superior obliged us to retreat. Upon our return the same day to the place of action, we found the bodies of the dead usid [sic] in a most inhuman & barbarous manner, the field in which some of the men fell there was Buck Wheat Straw, which appeared to us they had taken & set fire to, and threw the men into, whether quite dead or not we cannot tell, but when found burnt to that degree that some of them could not be known. We viewed the Corps of most of the dead, & saw only two, as we remember, that had escaped the most cruel Barbarity that had ever been exercised by any civilised [sic] Nation; nay, Savage barbarity in its utmost exertion of cruelty could but equal it.

Fr'k Watts,
Sam'l Henry.

Sworn before me, this 14th day of May, 1778.

And'w Long.