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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. Passage 2470 of 4798 272 words

<> General Howe lo Lord George Gennaine, " New-York, 30 November, " 1776 ; " [Hall's] IFislory of the CioU War in America, i., 207 ; Stedman's History of the Ami-rican War, i.,212 ; Marshall's Life of George Wathington, ii., 503 ; etc.

^Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in the Army, dated "Camp near "the Mill.*!, about three miles North of Wmite-Pi.ains, November "1, 1776," re-printed in Force's American Archives, "V. iii., 473, 474.

We have learned from the Iteturns of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing, on that day, of Regiments who are known to have taken no part whatever in the subseiiuent action on Chatterton's-hill, of what Keginients that force who met tlie King's troops, near Hart's-corners, was composed: it contained the llegiments commanded by Colonels Silliman, Selden, Sage, and Douglass-- the latter commanded by Dieutenant-colonel Arnold -- all of them of the Brigade commanded by General Wadsworth ; the Kegimeut commanded by Colonel Chester, of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Sargent ; the Regiments commanded by Colonels Baldwin, Douglass, an<l Lieutenant-colonel Ely, of the Brigade commanded by General Saltonstall ; and the Regiments commanded by Colonels Holman and Smith, of the Brigade commanded by General Fellows. All these made Iteturns of Casualties sustained by them, on that occasion : how many other Regiments there were, whose bashfulness forbade the making of any Returns, we have not ascertained.

' Letter from a Gentleman in the Army, "Camp near the Mills, about " THREE MILES NoRTH OF White-Plains, November 1, 1776 ; " Memoir of Colonel Bei\iamin Tallmadge, prepared by himself, at the request of his children, 13 ; etc.

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