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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 302 words

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. I., No. 24., Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 5, 1776, and by General Force, in the American Archiceo, V., ii., 1174, contained a statement of theskirmish, giving theiommand toGeneral Lee and making other serious eirors ; some Liformution relatintj to the enemy, commaniculed to the Neio-York Convention, evMenWy by General George Clinton, on the twenty-first of October, 1776, gave a brief description ; an allusion which was made to it, with the report of a deserter as to the enemy's loss, may be seen in an Extract of a letter from Fort Lee, dated "Octcber 22," and published iu Tlu Philadelphia Evening Post, Vol.