" General Ucnougal's Brigade, of which the Maryland Regulars is " a part, having laid in the woods for three nights," [preceding the day of the action oh Chatterton^s-hilt, that is to sny, on the nights of thettceniijfifUt, lirentii-airth, and twent;i-sevenlh of October,] " two miles from this " place, and to the right of the main body, as a covering party, was or- ** dered to advance along the road, about a mile, near a place called the "Mile-stone, and there take post, which was accordingly done." {Letter to a Gentlemnn in Annapolis, dated " White-Pi.aixs, October 29, 1776," re-print«d in Force's American Archives, V., ii., 1284.)

' '■ I am so closely confined to my post, on the left of the whole, as not " to have been a quarter mile West from this for four days past. Near "three thousand of the enemy, yesterday and the evening before, filed "off to the left, aud were seen advancing towards King's street and the "Purchase road. . . . Our lines were manned all night, in con- "•equence of this ; and a most horrid night it was to lay in cold "trenches. ... I have only time to add that I am with usual " health, though in no better lodging than a soldier's tent, with our old "friend General Scott." {General George Clinton to John McKesson, "C.^MP^■E.^K White-Plains, October 31, 17"fi.")

'"On the same evening," [October 23,] "Col. Tyler's, Huntington's, and "Throop's Regiments, of General Parson's Brigade and of our General's " Division, moved, and took post at the head of King-street, near Rye- "pond. " -- (Memoirs of General Heath, 75,76.)