At this signal, every man sprang up in his place, with a shout that made the welkin ring ; making at the same time such a rustling in the bushes, that the British, thinking themselves surrounded by a superior force, surrendered without resistance. On the next day they were marched to Fishkill, and confined in the old Dutch church.''^

16th of October, 1799, (remarks Gen. Heath,) fourteen seamen were taken prisoners by Capt. Hallet's company of New York militia, two days before on the North River, near Teller's Point. c

• sparks life »f Arnold, 20G. « Heath's Mem. 22.

b Barnum's spy unrnaskr-d, p. 149, 150,

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The surface of this town is hilly, and on the north west mountainous. The soil consists principally of sand" and gravellyloam ; it is abundantly supplied with rivulets and springs of water. The general growth of wood, is oak of all kinds, chesnut, hickory, elm, black and while ash, birch and pine.

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EAST CHESTER.^

This township is situated ten miles south of White Plains, twenty miles north of New York, one hundred and forty from the city of Albany, and four east of the Hudson ; bounded, north by Scarsdale, east by Pelham and New Rochelle, south by West Chester, and west by Yonkers. It is about seven miles long, nor thand south, and near two and a half miles wide. On the west it is washed by the Bronx river, (Aguehung) and on the east by Hutchinson's (Aqueanounck,) or East Chester creek, which enters a large bay of the same name, in the south east angle of this town>