" wanting to serve those brave Officers and men." (Extract of a Utter from " Camp at Mile Square in Kast Chester." dated 23 October, 1776, in The Freemnn' s Journal or XeivHampshire Gazette, Yo\. I., No. 25. Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 12, 177G.)

General Wasliiiigtoii conveyed his sense of the merit of Colonel Glover and his command, in these words:

"General Orders. " Head-qvarters, Harlem Heights, October 21, 1776. " (Porofe, Heath.) , . (Co«»fers;<)«, Sullivan.)

"The hurried situation of the General, for the two last days, having "prevented him hum paying that attention to Colonel Glover and the "Officers and soldiers who were with him, in the skirmish, on Friday " last, that their merit and good behaviour deserved, he tlatters himself "that his thauks, tliough delayed, will, nevertheless, be accept;ible to " them, as they are offered with great sincerity and cordiality. At the "same time, he hopes that every other part of the Army will do their "duty with equal duty* and zeal, whenever called upon; and that " neither dangers, diHii ulties, nor hai-dships will discourage soldiers en "gaged in the cause of Liberty, and contending for all that freemen "hold dear and va'uable."

'David How, in his homely Dinrij, under that date, [October 18,] noticed the engagement, in these words : " 18. The Regulars Landed above "Frogg's point on the main Land. Our people fought Them Killed a " great many Both sides we have not The Particulars as yet." Limlenanl-coUmel Tench Tihjhmnn to Willinm Diier, "Head-quarters, King's " Bridge, October 211, 177ii,'' made a passing and complimentary allusion to the affair ; Geueriil Washitujtoit, through /(i« Secreiarij, to the Continentut Congresit, "King's Bridge, October 20, 1776, half-after one o'clock, "P.M.," gave a brief and complimentary account of the skirmish; an Extract of a MIer from Fori Lee, daleii " October 20, 1776," and published in Ihe Pennsiilrania Jonrnal, No. 1768, Philadelphia, Wednesday, October 23, 1776, and by General Force, in his American Archive*, V., ii., 1130, gave a very good and genenilly correct account of it; another Extract of a letter from F^irt Lee, <luUd "October 20," and published in the same newspaper, on the following Wednesday, also gave a good, brief description ; an Extract of a letter from an Ojhcer, dated " Near New "Rociielle(in the vicTxiTY OF N EW-YoRK ) October 20, 1776," made a brief and exagg"rated allusion to it ; un Editorial article, in a Newport newspaper of the twenty-first of October, copii d by The Freeman s Journal I r Xew- Hampshire G izetle, Vol.