Deposition of William Stayner
May 14, 1778
Bucks, ss.
personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Bucks, Wm. STAYNERr, of the City of Philada, and being quallified [sic] as the law directs, deposeth, & sayeth, that several of the Brittish [sic] Light Infantry informed him, this Deponant, that in the Engagement with Genl LACEY on the first of May inst., they Bayoneted some of Genl LACEYs [sic] men, after they had surrendered Themselves Prisoners, others they threw into heaps of Buckwheat Straw, while alive, and burnt them to death.
Wm. Stayner.
Sworn before me, this 14th day of May, 1778.
Andrew Long.
Pennsylvania Archives, 1st Series, Vol. IV