The American detachment marched from near Pinesbridge about mid-day on the 3d of March. At Eastchester Major Woodbridge halted with his infantry for the purpose of tak-ing a position by which he might cover Honeywell's retreat, while the latter pushed forward toward Morrisania, and pass-ing down between the quarters occupied by the refugees and redoubt No. 8 turned the left flank of the former between daylight and sunrise, and suddenly entered the settlement of the royalists. Cornelius Oakley, seconded by Abraham Dyckman, led the attack, and charged home with loud huzzas, at the head of about twenty guides and mounted volunteers. The enemy, completely surprised, were dispersed, fled at the first onset in every direction, leaving six dead upon the spot and many wounded men whose sabre cuts were too severe to warrant a removal. Soon afterward, however, some of the refugees rallied, and availing themselves of positions which the American horsemen could not reach, harassed their assailants by an unremitted discharge of musketry, which occasioned the firing of alarm guns at redoubt No. 8, and at Fort George on New York Island. Capt. Honeywell now proceeded without delay to fall back upon major Wood-bridge. The prisoners consisted of a Lieutenant and twenty of DeLancey's men, and twenty-two dragoon horses also were captured, with their equipment and the arms of their

THE WESTCHESTER GUIDES 81 riders. Although the American forces retired with celerity, it was not long before Colonel DeLancey overtook them in Eastchester, at the head of his whole corps, and some Hessian riflemen from Kingsbridge under Captain Hetlzheimer, but his infantry being extremely fatigued by a forced march of unusual rapidity, he halted for a while before leading them against the Americans. At this moment the guide of Kingsbridge, who always courted the post of danger, the foremost of the van in pur-suit, the hindmost of the rear in retreat, was riding side by side with his cousin the late William N.