The Virginia Gazette

Jan. 16. Count Donop, commander of the late Hessian cantonments upon the Delaware, in Jersey, published an invitation to the people in the country to bring in provisions, &c. for his army; promising to pay for them to the value, to those who would supply him voluntarily; and threatening to take by force from those who neglected to comply with his requisition. In consequence of this advertisement many brought in their supplies to the King's stores, but there is no instance known of their having received one farthing in recompence. Such is the truth, such the justice and humanity of these invaders of peace and property—and such the treatment all must expect to suffer, and will assuredly find, if we permit this uncivilized banditti to over-run and possess our country.

It since appears, by General Howe's orders to the above commander, which have been taken in Jersey, that "all salted and meal provisions, judged to exceed the quantity necessary for the subsistence of an ordinary family, should be considered as a magazine of the enemy, and seized for the King, and given to the troops as a saving for the public."