History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
Hamilton, of Dobbs's-ferry, in a conversation with us,, many years ago, told U3 that his father, Captain Alexander Hamilton, lost his Baggage, on the march of General Lee's command from Harlem Heights to the White Plains ; and The Middle^^ex Journal and Evening Advertiser, No. 120(1, Lonud.n : From Saturday, December 21, to Tuesday, December 24, 1776, cuntiiine a letter from Westchester, dated November 10, 1776, and carried to England by the Fotny, in which it was stated, " Upon landing at New-Rochelle, we found the church full of Salt.* Our "troops advanced to this place where we took General Lee's baggage."
In the same number of the same newspaper, another letter ^' from an " Officer in Gen. Ilotce^s Army, in the Province of New J'ori," dated' "Nov. 11, 1776," is printed, in which it is said, ".\ little beyond West " Chester some of our people found a pipe of wine, directed for General " Lee, and nine puncheons of rum, which the General ordered to be "staved, lest the soldiers should get drunk."
Meimtirs of General Heath, 76 ; Stedman's History of the American TVur, i., 212 ; Marehall's Li/f of George Washington, ii., 502.
Colonel .John Glover, in the letter from which we have learned so much of this Campaign, and who was with General Lee, stated, evidently erroneously, that the column did not reach the White Plains until ten o'clock on Monday morning, the twenty eighth of October, after having marched during the whole of the preceding night, (Colonel Glover^s h t- <er,dated " MiLE-SyUARE, October 22, 1776," published in The Freeman's Journaland yeW'Hampshire Gazette, Volume I., Number 27, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776 ;) but the Lrttir from a Gentleman in the Army, dated "Camp near the Mills, abiht three miles North of "the White Plains, November 1, 1776," reprinted in Force's American Archives, V., iii., 471-474, stated that "General Lee reached the Plains, "and uutrched out, westward, between the main body of the Army and "the river," [that is, he occupied the right of the line, between General Sullivan's command and the l}ron.c-river.] " This was on the 25th and " 2Gth of October," the author of the letter added.