During the entire period succeeding the determination to move the main body of the American Army from the Heights of Harlem to the White Plains, there were the most active preparations to secure a successful retreat, throughout every portion of the Armj\ It is said the Mortars, some of the Cannon, a portion of General Washington's Baggage, and some of the Sick had been taken to the western side of the Hudson-river, before that determination was made;" on the morning of the twenty-second, the Sick who had not been sent over the Hudson-river, were sent

*'177G,"and copied into The Vemisi/lmvia Jo7fnial, No. 1770, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 6, 1776, stated that the affair occurred on AVednesday, the tvienty-third of October, as stated in the text ; that the supporting party belonged to Colonel Hand's Keginient of Kiflemen, instead of to Colonel Glover's Regiment ; that the Americans buried ten of the Hessians, on the field ; and that the only loss sustained by the Aniericans was "one lad wounded, supposed mortally." A hiter from It Gnitlemim in the Armij, ilated "Camp near the Mills, abouj " THREE JULES North OF THE White Plains, November 1, 1776," imblished in Force's American Archives, V., iii., 473, stated that "our people " buried thirteen Hessians left dead on the field ; " that " one wounded " Lieutenant was taken ;" that, " although we had not one man killed "on the ground," we had " six or eight wounded, but one, it is thought, "moi'tally;" and that the Major's Commission was found on the ground ; "but whether it belonged to any of the slain or to some Officer "who might be wounded and carried off, they could not determine."