Stephens, Secretary of the Admiralty," E.\GLi:, '• OTT New-York, November 23, 1776 ; " Getieral Hotce to Lord George Germaine, "New-York, November 30, 1776;" David How's Diary, October 1«, 1776: [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 205 ; ilfmioiri of General Heath, 72 ; Gordon's HisUiry of the American Revolution, ii., 338 ; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 211 ; etc.

* Extract of a Utter from Mih S/iiarc, [evidently written by General Glover,] dated October 22, 1776, in The Freeman's Journal and Sew Hampshire GaitUe, Yol. I, No. 27, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776.

Although the full strength of the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Shepard, Read, Baldwin, and Glover -- the latter, at that time, commanded by Captain Curtis -- was less than eight hundred effective men,* the brave fisherman who temporarily commanded the Brigade pushed forward toward the place where the enemy's Light Infantry and Grenadiers and Chasseurs had landed, and where the main body was about to land, although the rough and broken ground over which the Brigade was moved compelled him to leave, on his route, the three field-pieces which he had taken from his encampment. He had not marched more than half the dis-

'The followins, from the General Reluma of the Army, will serve to show the strength of that little detachment, both before and after the spirited little affair which is now under notice :

September 21, 1776.

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