As it is more than probable that the ships, when they were attacke<l, were off Tarrytown, instead of below Y'oukere; as Yonkers, in 1777, was within the British lines, and so conld not have alTorded a rendezvous, in the Saw-Mill-river, for .\mericttn gun-boats and fireships, during that year ; as the Pha nij- and the Hose had dropped down to the anchorage of the Royal Fleet, off .Staten Island, on the eighteenth of August, 17'6, two days after the engagement des< ribed in the text ; .and as the autliiirity whom be quoted, in full, descriiied the engagement, of which he was an eye-witness, as having taken place on the sixteenth of August, 1771!, it will be evident to the reader that the historian of Westchesterciuiuty, as well us his posthumous Editor, blundered.

2 In order that the reader may understand the gravity of the subject, and be the better prepared for the recital of the narrative of those stir-

I ring events which occurreil within the succeeding month, we make

I room for the following :

I •* It gives us great pain to inform yon that the aid received from our "sister States is very inadequate to our expei tations, none of them hav- ''ing yet comjtleted the levies diri'cted liy Congress, which leaves us "reason to fear that, instead of using every means that human wisdom "dictates, for ensuring success, we shall, (with inferior numbers,) on "the doubtful issue of a single battle, hazard the glorious cause for " which we have hitherto struggled." (Thr Convention nf Neir I'ln k to the Delegation from Xew York in the Continental Congress, "Harlem, 7th An- "gust, 1776, A.M. ")