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. Moore, an officer of the Society. Mr. Moore re-read "The Westchester Guides in the War of the Revolution" on Nov. 3, 1863, and "The Life, Character, etc., of the Marquis de la Rouerie (Col. Armand)" on March 2, 1869 and again on June 7, 1881. "The Westchester Guides in the War of the Revolution" was again read before the same Society by Edward Floyd de Lancey on May 4, 1897, and "The Neutral Ground" was read a second time by Dr. Sydney H. Carney, Jr., on Feb. 7, 1899. Edward Floyd de Lancey will be remembered as an incorporator and the first active president of this Society, 1874-1876, and as one deeply interested in Westchester County history. Among many other items he was the author of "The Origin and History of Manors in New York, and in the County of Westchester" and "Mamaroneck" both published in Scharf's ''History of Westchester County," Philadelphia, 1886.

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