*'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."

6 Colonel Glover's letter, dated " Mile-Sqi are, October 22,* 1776," published in The Frceman^s Jourital and Xeir-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I., No. 27, I'onTSMOVTH, Tuesday, November 26, 1770.

' Doctor Sparks, in the Writings of George Washington, iv., 152, note ; Memoir of General Heath, 75.

Compare, also. Lieutenant-colonel Tilghman to the New York Convention, " Head-qlarters, VALENTiNE's-Hn.L, OctobeT 22, 1776,"' with the same to William Dner, " HEAn-gi'ARTEKS, White-Plains, October 23, 177G."