On the margin of his own copy of Stedman's History of the American War, (i. 211,) he wrote these words: " It " had been proposed to Sir William Howe that the troops should have " been inarched to Harlem Point " [Hoern'n Book, at the mouth of the Harlem Iliver, oppotite Hell-gate,^ " there met by the boats, pa.ssed to City "Orchard" [CUy-i»land f] thence to Mill'sCreek," [Xew BocMle-harbor,] " and Kochelle. This was overruled ; and the above move to Frog's " Point took place. Lord Howe objected to Mill's Creek, under an idea " that it would not be safe for ships to lay there."

» Speech of Sir William Howe before a CommiOeeof Oie House of Commom, April 29, 1779.

' Although Throgg's-neck is only a short distance from where we have lived during the past twenty-seven years, we have never been on the ground ; and we have depended, for what we have said of it, on General Heath, {Memoirs, 67,) and on our unwearied friend, William H. Do Lancey, Esq., who is familiar with that portion of the County.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Hand, of the First Regiment of Continental Foot ; and, in doing so, he had "taken a view" of the causeway and the bridge, between the mainland and the Neck, at the western end of which a large quantity of cord-wood had been piled, " as advantageously siiu- " ated to cover a party defending the pass, as if con- " structed for the very purpose," as he has stated. Considering it possible that the enemy might make a lodgment on Throgg's-neck, the General immediately ordered Colonel Hand to detail one of his best Subalterns and twenty-five picked men, to that pass, " as " their alarm-post, at all times," with orders, if the enemy should effect a landing on the Neck, immediately to take up the planks of the bridge ; to oppose the movement of the enemy, to the mainland ; and, in case the fire of the detachment should appear to be insufficient to check the advance of the enemy, over the causeway, to set fire to a tide-mill which stood on the mainland, at the western extremity of the bridge.^ He also ordered Colonel Hand to detail another party to guard the fording-place, at the head of the creek ; and to reinforce both these parties, if the enemy should efi'ect a landing on the Neck; and he promised the Colonel that he should be properly supported.