13 In Lieutenant-colonel Tilghnian's letter to his father, already mentioned, it is said "they counted 2.5 killed in one Orchard, how many got " oft" wounded we dont know ;" and in Colonel Haslet's letter to General Rodney, already referred to, it was said, "his Lieutenant and a number " of others were left dead on the spot."

^* Lieutenant-colonel Tilghmanfo his father, "Valentine's-Hill 4 miles "from Kingsbridge, 22 October, 1776;" Coloyiel Haslett to General Rodney, " White-Plains, October 28, 1776 ;" etc.

A list of thirty-one of those prisoners may be seen in Force's American Archives, V., ii., 1203 ; but the evident slaughter of the names has made that record useless to every one who is unacquainted with the names of

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including, among the trophies of their bravery, " a ^'pair of Colors, sixty stund of Arms, and a variety of "plunder,"' among the latter of which were "a good •"many Blankets."^ On the side of the Americans, "three or four were left, dead, and. about fifteen were " wounded, among the latter, Major Green, of the "Second Virginia Regiment, wounded in the shoul- " der, and Captain Pope, who acted as Major, and "behaved with great bravery, wounded in the leg.'" •General Lord Stirling is said to have been "so highly " pleased with the success of the expedition, that he " thanked Colonel Haslet and his command, pub- " Holy, on the parade." *

families of whom they were probably membere. As many of them appear *o have been of W'estchester-county origin, we append the list, corrected A3 far as we have been able to correct it :