"Tarkytowx, (Sunday morning,) August 4.

"Sir:

"I have just opportunity to inform you that, "yesterday, at one o'clock, I'.M., the galleys attacked " the J'/urni.v and the Hose, off" Tarrytown.

"The Lady Washington fired the first gun on our "side, in answer to one received from the Plmmix: " this first shot from us entered the P/nrnix. The " Washiw/fon , galley, on board of which the Commo- " dole's flag was hoisted, then came up within grape- " shot of the ships, and singly sustained their whole " fire, for about a quarter of an hour, before any other "of our vessels took a shot from her (the tide wa.sting " them more than the pilots expected to the eastern " shore ; and the Lady Washington falling back to

' Compare the letter of Pierre Van Cortlaudt and Zephaniah Piatt, Junr., of the second of August, with the reiwrts of the engagement between the galleys and the ships, off Tarrytown, un the evening of tbe next day.

General Washington to the Convention, " St:\\-\uRK, July 24, 1776." 't Memoirs of ^htjor-ijmeral Ui'oth, .'il. ):[HairsJ Hisli,rg of llie Civil War in Am»rica, 1»U.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

" take her station in the line, according to orders). " The Spitfire advanced, in a line with the Washing- " ton ; and, with her, behaved well.

" We had as hot a fire as, perhaps, was ever known, " for an hour and a half. The Washington, which 1 " was on board, during the whole engagement, had "the ledgings of her bow-guns knocked away, which " prevented our working them, and was otherwise "considerably damaged, being thirteen times hulled, " had three shot in the waist, many of her oars car- "ried away, etc. The Lady Washington, after hulling " the Phfvnix six times, had her bow, and only, gun, " a thirty-two-pounder, on which we placed much " dependence, split seven inches, and her gun-tackle>- " and breechings carried away.