On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Congressman Thomas McKean wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler at his home and headquarters in Saratoga, New York about a force Scottish Highland soldierssss organized by Sir John Johnson in New York:

A certain Duncan Campbell, Captain in the Royal Scotch Emigrants and now a Prisoner here, in a conversation yesterday with Captain Wade of the Militia of this City, who is a relation of Sir John Johnson, so far forgot himself, as to mention to him that there were two hundred of that regiment in the neighborhood of Sir John.

These Soldiers are supposed to be the McDonalds & Highlanders settled on the lands of Sir John.

I am desired by the Congress, to communicate this information to you, that those Soldiers and their Officers may be apprehended & detained as prisoners of war and not considered so much as Tories. If they are soldiers and can be secured, they may possibly be exchanged for the like number of our friends in Quebec.

Source: https://seanpatrickkelleher.substack.com/p/a-borderland-stretched-thin-saratoga