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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
David Hall a Soldier in Col. Stewarts Regiment of Light Infantry convicted at a General Court Martial, whereof Col. Courtland is President, of Plundering an Inhabitant of Money and Plate; and being Condemned to Death, is to be Executed at half past four o'clock this afternoon.
Fifty men properly officered, from every Brigade in the army, to attend, in the Rear of General Pattersons Brigade.
It has been much the Generals Desire, to prevents enormities of this Kind, which are as repugnant to the principles, of the Cause to which we are Engaged as offensive to the Inhabitants, and Subversive of that Order, and Discipline, which must