BARRETT, Bedford HERBERT D. TOMPKINS, Cortlandt FREDERICK P. CLOSE, Eastchester CHARLES D. MILLARD, Greenburgh BENJAMIN I. TAYLOR, Harrison EDWARD H. SMITH, Lewisboro GEORGE W. BURTON, Mamaroneck CHARLES J. MARASCO, Mount Pleasant GEORGE S. HAIGHT, Mount Vernon THOS. H. HODGE, Mount Vernon JAMES BERG, Mount Vernon JOHN G. ARCHER, Mount Vernon HOWARD R. WASHBURN, New Castle LEONARD H. GOLDSMITH, New Rochelle PAUL M. CRANDELL, New Rochelle GEORGE T. BACON, New Rochelle JOSEPH J. MANCUSI, New Rochelle J. HOBART COX, North Castle ALBERT J. LOBDELL, North Salem HERBERT C. GERLACH, Ossining DAVID LYON, Pelham GEORGE I. RUSCOE, Poundridge W. DEFORREST SHERWOOD, Rye WILLIAM A. BASSETT, Scarsdale GEORGE TURNER, Somers THEODORE C. RANSCHT, White Plains JAMES H. MORAN, White Plains JOSEPH B. MCCARTHY, White Plains WILLIAM J. WINN, Yonkers JOHN F. RYAN, Yonkers CHARLES H. TOWNER, Yonkers FRANK MADDEN, Yonkers JAMES A. SULLIVAN, Yonkers THOS. J. WALSH, Yonkers EDMUND SICKLEY, Yonkers WILLIAM H. LESLIE, Yonkers FRANK S. MCCOLLUM, Yonkers LOUIS MILLIOT, Yonkers RALPH HAYHURT, Yonkers JAMES N. STRANG, Yorktown

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<blank page> Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society Volume IV

The McDonald Papers

Part I

Edited by William S. Hadaway

Published for Westchester County by the Westchester County Historical Society White Plains, N. Y.

Copyright, 1926 by Westchester County Historical Society

<stamp> The Knickerbocker Press New York <stamp> Made in the United States of America

INTRODUCTION

The "McDonald Papers" were prepared by John M. Mc-Donald, a native of Westchester County, and read before the New York Historical Society as follows1:

The Life, Character, etc. of the Marquis de la Rouerie (Col. Armand), May 6, 1851 The Westchester Guide in the War of the Revolution May 4, 1852 The Neutral Ground, May 2, 1854 Battle of White Plains, etc. Oct.7, 1856 The Danbury Expedition, April 23d to 28th, 1777 Oct. 5, 1858 The Capture of Pound Ridge Oct. 1, 1861 Colonel DeLancey's Final Departure, June 17, 1862 The Operations and Skirmishes of the British and American Armies in 1776, Before the Battle of White Plains, Oct. 7, 1862 The ''McDonald Papers" are not only interesting and valuable for the information that they contain but they are 1It was not then customary for an author to present his own papers before the New York Historical Society and these papers were read by George H.