"Winchester, Virginia And Its Beginnings 1743-1814" By Katherine Glass GREENE 1926 Page 126 Captain Daniel MORGAN's company which on July 14, 1775, left Winchester on its six hundred mile march on foot and accompaned by one wagon, reached Cambridge, Mass., on August 7. WASHINGTON wept as he held these old friends and took them by the hand. Their march to Quebec, their hardships, their endurance and marvelous preservation from disaster are household history. Among the privates from Winchester are found the names of George GREENWAY, William GREENWAY, Seth STRATTON, John SCHULTZ, Jacob SPERRY, Peter LAUCK, Simon LAUCK, Frederick KURTZ, Adam KURTZ, Charles GRIM, George HEISKELL, Robert ANDERSON, William BULL and Mark HAYS. Among them six Germans, who were intimate during the war and until the end of their long lives formed what is know as the Dutch Mess. The six as given by Mr. William GREEWAY RUSSELL, who knew some of them and remembered their quaint anniversaries, when memories of their famous campaigns were fondly recalled, gave the six as consisting of Peter LAUCK, Simon LAUCK, Frederick KURTZ, John SCHULTZ, Charles GRIM and Jacob SPERRY. A descendant of one of them, who has given the subject serious study, gives Adam KURTZ (1747-1815), Peter LAUCK, John W. GRIM (perhaps Charles), Adam HEISKELL, Jacob SPERRY and John SCHULTZ. Adam HEISKELL is buried in Romney, WV. The others rest near the ruins of the old Lutheran Church.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------In addition to Captain Daniel MORGAN the officers were first lieutenant, John HUMPHREY; second lieutenant, Willial HETH; first sergeant, George PORTERFIELD, or Charles PORTERFIELD. To COLONEL DANIEL MORGAN Camp near German Town, August 9, 1777. Sir: You will march to morrow morning the Corps under your Command for Maidenhead in the State of Jersey and there halt till you receive further Orders. You will take every possible care in your power, as well in your march, as during your stay at that place, to restrain every Species of licentiousness in the Soldiery and to prevent them doing the least injury to the Inhabitants or their property, as nothing can be more disserviceable to our cause, or more unworthy the character we possess, to say nothing of the injustice of the measure. I am etc.68 [Note:The draft is in the writing of Robert Hanson Harrison. The letter sent, which is in the New York Public Library, is also in Harrison's writing, and varies from the above in capitalization. To COLONEL DANIEL MORGAN Camp at the Cross Roads, Bucks County, Sunday, 10 o'clock P.M., August 10, 1777. Sir: I have just recd an Express from Philada informing me that a large Fleet was seen off Sinepuxent Inlet on the 7th inst. You are therefore desired to halt wherever this finds you, and wait till we hear further of this matter. Let me know by Return of the Express where you are, that I may know how to direct for when I have occasion to send you Orders. I am, etc. P.S. By ordering you to halt where this shall find you, I mean upon the most convenient ground near the place.78 [Note:The text is from the Magazine of American History , vol. 7, P. 137. ]