 The book supplied details about the battle for "Brookland" (as he called it or Battle of Long Island) and complained about the generosity of the Treaty of Paris (1783) and consequent mistreatment of Loyalists.Jones singled out for particular attention the evacuation of the village of Hempstead, the recovery of escaped slaves by their Rebel owners, and the abandonment of Britain's Iroquois allies in northern New York.The manuscript lay almost a hundred years on a closet shelf until it was discovered and published.