6 " I now snatch an opportunity by the Post of informing you that

* "26 -- We Have ben a moveing our Tents to the top of the Hill th s " Day."-- (David How's Diari/, October 26, 1776.")

THE AMEKICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

the Brigades conithanded, respectively, by Generals George Clinton, John Morin Scott, and Samuel H. Parsons, the two former having been posted near the Purchase,' and the latter at the head of King-street, near Rye pond.-

On the twenty-seventh of October, the small force which had been left in Fort Independence, when General Heath's Division was moved from near Kingsbridge to the White Plains,^ was ordered to remove the Cannon and Stores from that post to Fort Washington ; to burn the several Barracks which had been erected, there, with so much difficulty and at so great an expense ; and, " with all possible dispatch," to move, by way of the Albany post-road, as far as Dobbs's-forry, to the White Plains ; * and, on the following day, without having removed the Cannon, three hundred stand of Small-arms, five tons of Bariron, and " a great quantity of Spears, Shot, Shells, " etc., too numerous to mention," which were within or near the Fort, and all of which were recklessly abandoned,^ that small command, numbering not more than four hundred effective men,^ joined the main body of the Division,' on the left of the line, at the White Plains. The enemy, who had occupied the entire lower portion of Westchester-county, since the American forces had been concentrated at the Plains, occupied the position, on the evening of the day on which Colonel Lasher had abandoned it.*