Colonel Glover so posted the three other regiments in the wood that they annoyed the enemy greatly. But discovering that they had determined to flank them he ordered a retreat. We had six or seven killed and about eighteen wounded. The enemies' loss about one hundred and forty or one hundred and fifty. After the skirmish we retreated to Mile Square, where we lay encamped till Friday, (25th Oct.) when with the remainder of General

• Diary of President Styles, Library of Yale College, vol. vi.

b The British grenadiers and light infantry (says Stedinan,) landed October 18th, 177fi, on Pell's Point, ten days before the battle of White Plains. The Hessians under Knypliauseu landed on Davenport's neck.

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Lee's, joined the main body of the American army at "White Plains.''^

There are several islands belonging to this town lying opposite the southern extremity of Pelham neck, which add much to the beauty of the Sound scenery. The principal of ilicsc is Great Minnefords^ or City Island. We have shown that upon the llih of December, 1685, John Pell sold Great Minneford's Island, sometimes called Mulberry Island, to John Smith of Bruldand. The principal proprietors of the island in 1700 were William Euerden and Gabriel Umbriel. '• Upon the 27th of May, Robert Monckton, governor of the province, laid out for Benjamin Palmer and others the breadth of four hundred feet of the ground or soil now lying under the water, round the east side south, and part of the west side of a certain island lying in the Sound or East river, in the manor of Pelham, &c., called and known by the name of Minnefords Island. The petitioners on this occasion appear to have been David Hunt, Jonathan Fowler, Caleb Hunt, Edward Ward, Samuel Ward, John Wooley, Isaac Barnes, Enoch Hunt, Joseph Muliineux, James Lewis, Aaron Hunt, Benjamin Palmer, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Le Roux, and many other persons, proprietors of iVIinnefords Island, ^ &c."