" PllIA, Wednesday, October :!0, 1776," and in Force's Amei-ican Archives, •T., ii., 1203 ; /16ram Clark to Colonel Dayton, " Eliza bethtown, October "26, 1776;" Extract from a letter published by the Continental Congress, in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1770, "Philadelphia, Wednesday, "November 6,1776;" General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New- " York, 30 November, 1776 ;" [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, I., 205 ; (ionion's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339 ; Memoirs of General H»ilh, 74, 75 ; etc.
Bolton, in his history of Westchester-counly, (original edition, i., 311 ; second edition, i., 499) prefi.xed to General Heath's mention of this affair (except the date, which the latter had correctly stated,) the singular information that it occurred on " the day previous to the battle at White " Plains," [Oc(o6ct- 27,] and that the command of the Americans was held by Colonel Smallwood, of the Maryland Line of the Continental Army.
Bancroft, in his History uf the I'nilt d Slates, (original edition, ix., 178 ; centenary edition, v. 442,) regarded the Rangers as only "a picket of "Rogers's Regiment of R<ingei-8," notwithstanding General Howe had described it, definitely, as a detachment of the entire "Corps of Rjin- "gers," not a portion of it, only, which had been sent forward, " to take possession of JIamaroneck ; " and no one, of either Army, con-
♦Thosewhoare thus designated (♦) were, probably, of Westchestercounty families.
t James Canuady was one of the Bedford Company who had served throughout the Campaign of 1775, under Colonel James Holmes, (rule page 101, ante.)