Bushnell, for blowing up the British Fleet.' Two new ships, purchased for the further obstruction of the channel of the river, were driven ashore, near Yonkers -- one of them was afterwards recovered, however, by a party of men whom General Clinton sent from Kingsbridge, for that purpose ;* and two galleys, which had been stationed near the obstructions, were also driven ashore, near Dobbs's-ferry, and captured by the enemy.* While the ships were at anchor, off

1303, Xew-York, Slonday, October 14, 177G ; The Freeman's Journal and Xeic-Hampiihire Gazelle, Volume 1, Number 27, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1770; The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1767, Philadelphia, WednestUiy, October 16, 1776; Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the Xfng't Army under the comnuwd of General WUliam Howe, K. B., in Nta York and But Xew Jersey, Ed. London : 1777 -- opposite -- ; Memoirt •/ Geiiei<ii Heath, 68 ; etc.

^General George Clinton to the Convention, "King's Bridge, 10 Oc- "tober, 1776."

' Vide page 392, ante.

• CUe late Charles J. Bushnell, of New York, well known among numlsmatista and antiquaries, wa^ of the same family as the Mr. Busliuelt nferred to, in tlie text ; and he gathered, with great labor and much SMt, ever.Niliing which was known to exist, concerning that early inventor. The onlj' description of the machine for destroying vessels at kochor, invented by him and destroyed by the enemy whom it was intended to annoy, as far as we have knowledge, may be seen in the iVetmoirt of General Heath, 69.