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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. 250 words

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 :

*Joseph Dean,

♦Jonathan Austin,

*Stephen Law,

Francis Baslcy,

♦Ulijah Carle,

James Sharp,

♦John Angevine,

Solomon Parent,

♦Joseph Carle,

.lonathau Eddy,

Walter Brown,

*Stephen Travis,

Gilbert Myers,

♦James Cannady,t

♦Frederic Bevoe,

♦Moses Travis,

David Lawrence,

Abraham Brown,

♦James Angevine,

♦Elnathan Appleby,

John Charlick,

Jedediah Davis,

Jeremiah Wood, *

Jacob Cadwell Burr,

Reuben Stivers,

James Jleleon, [*-Nelson f]

♦David Travis,

Noah Brown,

John Worden,

AVilliam VVaahburn.

♦Elijah Bartow,

1 Colonel Hatlet foGeneral Rodney, " White-Plains, October 28, 1776."

^ LieuteiuitU-colonel Tilghman to his father, " A'alentine's-Hill, 4 miles *'rR0M Kingsbridge, 22 October, 1776."

' Colonel Haslet to General Rodney, "'Wiiite-Plains, October 28, 1776."