Having ren-dered this service to the Royal cause, he returned to the village and posted his regiment on a smooth field upon Heathcote Hill, in the rear of what is now known as the Delancey House. The station thus selected was memorable in the recollections of the aged. It was the spot which formed part of the ornamental garden, that at the commencement of the eighteenth century, surrounded the fine mansion built by Colonel Caleb Heathcote, Lord of the Manor of Scarsdale, and a member of the Royal Council for the province of New York. Rogers took possession of the village school house, which stood on the west side of the Boston highway, opposite to the road which leads to Delancey's Neck. He dismissed the children to their homes, and the place of their instruction became his quarters for several days subsequently. After nightfall sen-tinels were carefully posted in advance along the roads and passes in the direction of Whiteplains, Harrison, and Rye, while the approaches from the British camp almost en-tirely unguarded; it not being considered probable that an enemy would venture so near the right wing of the Royal army. The Rangers had no tents and bivouacked around rail fires, made out of the neighboring fences. Lord Sterling who was taken prisoner by the enemy at the battle of Long Island, and subsequently, on the 7th of October, exchanged for Governor Brown, was now with the army of Whiteplains. He had previously been stationed with his brigade, in the vicinity of this last place, and was well acquainted with the country between it and the Sound. He had obtained accurate information of the post occupied by Rogers and Heathcote Hill and formed an extemporaneous plan for the capture or destruction of the Queen's Rangers, which was at once carried into execution.