On Friday sixty-five sail of vessels, " under convoy of the Diamond and Ambuscade, with the second divis- " ion of the Hessians and one thousand Waldeckers, under the command " of the Generals Knyphausen and Schinidtz, and a number of recruits for " the British troops, in all about eight thousand effective men, arrived " off Sandy-Hook. They sailed from Plymouth Sounil, the 27th of July. "In the fleet are several victuallers and vessels laden with draught- " horses for the train and baggage of the Army." (Tlie New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1304, New-York, Monday, October 21, 177G.)

See, also, Lord George Germaine to General Howe, " Whitehall, 21 "June, 1776."

" General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-York, November 30, "1776 ; " [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 206 ; Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King^s Army ; Gordon's History of the American RevohUi^m, ii., 339 ; Plan of the Country from Frog's Point to Croton River ; etc.

Bolton, in his History of Westchester-county, (original edition, i., 140 ; second edition, i., 688) said General Knyphausen landed on Myers point, or Davenport's neck, "ten days previous to the battle of White-Plains," [October 18,] the day on which he had reached Sandy-hook ; anil in the first of the two editions, he cited, as his authority, Stedman's History of the American War, in which there is not the slightest mention of the date of the debarkation of the Division, beyond the fart that it was after the twenty-first of October, seven days before the action on Chatterton'shill.