' General Clinton sent out the detachment of troops which rescued one of the ships which were driven ashore, near Yonkers. -- (General George Clinton to the Cmiventiou, " King's Bridge, 10 October, 1770.")

8 General Heath ordered Colonel Sargent, with five hundred Infantry and forty Cavalry ; Captain Horton, of the .\rtillery, with two twelvepounders ; and Captain Crafts, with a howitzer, to march, immediately and with all possible expedition, to Dobbs's-ferry ; and the entire Division was formed, in order of battle, and "moved down, over the different "grounds which it was supposed might be the scene of action." -- (Memoirs of General Heath, 69 )

See, also, Genmil Heath's Orders to Colonel Sargent, " KiNo's Bridoe, "October 9, 1776;" David How's l>inry, October 9, 1776; Colonel Sargent to Gtneral Heath, " Half piust two o'clock at night, DoBU's Ferry, " October 10, 1770 ; " General Heath's Orders to Colonel Sargent, " KiNu's '• Bridge, October 10, 1776 ; " etc.

* We have not found a file of Gaine's AVw- Tort Gazelle and the Weekly Mercury of the latter portion of 1770 ; and the well-informed Mr. Kclby, of the New Y'ork Historical Society, informs us that such a file is not known to him, anywhere.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

which it should have received, at an earlier day, and of which it was in great need.'

The enemy's Squadron got under way, again, during the evening, and sailed up the river, as far as Tarrytown ; where it anchored, and remained during the entire period which was occupied by those stirring and momentous events of which their own movement, up the Hudson-river, was the earlier portion. -