We are not insensible that words employed by Colonel Harrison, in his letter to the President of the Congress, dated "White-Plains, 29 "October, 1776," have been construed to mean that troops had been sent down, on the morning of the twenty-eighth of October, " with a view of " throwing up some lines, ' on Chatterton's-hill ; and that the biographer of Colonel Rufus Putnam, (Memoir of Coloiu l Itufm Putnam, iu Hildreth's Biographical and Hitiorical Memoirt of the Early Settler t of Ohio^

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

twenty-eighth of October, General Washington ordered Colonel Haslet, with his Regimentof Delaware troops, and General McDougal, with his Brigade, the latter comi)Osed of the Eegiment of New York troops whom he had formerly commanded, the Eegiment of the same Line who was commanded by Colonel Eitzema, the Eegiment of Maryland troops whom Colonel Smallwood commanded, and the Eegiment of Connecticut troops commanded by Colonel Charles Webb, to occupy the same position.'

It appears that Colonel Haslet's command was the first of the reinforcements to reach the hill ; ^ and it is very probable that it was either that Eegiment or that commanded by Colonel Brooks or both, together, on the summit of the high ground, on his right, which led Colonel Rail to check his Hessian Eegiments, in their pursuit of the fugitive New Englanders, and to occupy the position on the high ground, nearer to Hartsdale, to which i"eference has been made, whence he could move, if such a movement should become expedient, on the right flank and rear of whatever force of the Americans should occupy Chatterton's-hill -- a movement, by the way, since it was evidently made by Colonel Eall, on his own impulse, which reflected gi"eat credit on the military abilities of that subsequently unfortunate Oflicer.'^