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offices of humanity, the troops at Williamsburgh have been several times attacked by your forces, not with a view to gain and hold possession of the place and to assume the guardianship which has been ex- tended to the inhabitants and the Tenants of the [?] by us, but for the purpose of harassing those who were performing this generous service. On the 31st [?] your forces entered and endeavored to take possession of the town, occupying several houses & firing [?] the troops: and in this, as I am informed, they were aided by some of the inhabitants, who have been living for nearly a year under our protection. More recently your forces entered the town and took possession of it, place our employés in the [?] [?] under parole, carrying off some of the servants and depriving its inmates of the [ease?] to which they have been accustomed and which their helpless condition under indispensable. You have by with- drawing your forces, left the [?] again to our charity and compelled Mayor General Keyes the Com- manding Officer of the Troops at Yorktown and Fort [?] to supply it with food to save the patients