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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. 273 words

'Colonel Hatlet to General Cee$ar Rodney, "November 12, 1776;" Captiiiii Hull's unpublished Memoir of hie ReroliUionnry Serricef, quoted in CampbeH's Reroluliouary Serrici-t and Oicil Life of General William Hull, by his daughter, 54, 55 ; etc.

< Colonel Carrington, {Rattles of the Ameiican Revolution, 240,) was at «ome pains to introduce Colonel Mon-is Graham, of the New York Militia, and to place his name where it would appear among those of Colonels commanding Regiments who had occupieil and defended ChattertoD's-

Company of New-York Artillery, with two small

field-pieces, commanded by Captain Alexander Hamilton and forming a portion of the Brigade commanded by General McDougal, was, also, present ; but history has not recorded the name of the Officer who, then, commanded it.^

The cannonade of the little party, on Chatterton'shill,- was continued by the Hessian Artillerists, without cessation, while the General Officers, it is said," assembled in Council, without having dismounted ; and it is probable that the noisy demonstration, so very characteristic of Germans, in their use of gunjiowdcr, was continued, with unabated ardor, until the movement of their companions in arms, up the steep and rugged hill-side, of which the reader will learn more, hereafter, obliged the gunners to suspend their operations."

"Upon viewing the situation," in deference to the

hill ; but no other writer than he has thus honored Colonel Graham, himself unworthy of any such authorial favor; and, besides. Colonel Carrington coulil have easily ascertained that Colonel Graham's cominanil was a portion of tile Brigade coniinanded by General George Clinton, who was posted on the extreme left of the American line, not far from two miles from Chatterton's-hill.