History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

■"The gaining of this important post took up a considerable lime, "which Wiis prolonged by the enemy's still supporting a broken ami "scattered engagement, in defence of the adjoining walls and hedges." [/.-nres .■"]--( '/'/('• AuHual Wijistrr for 177G, History of Kurope, *I7«.)

Thf lIMorij of the War in .iiifrica, Kdit. Dublin, 177!), (i., lU.') ;) (iordon's Hvilorii of Ihr Ano riran It' i nhilion, (ii., 341 ;) and others, also, bear testimony to the gallantvy of the .\nuTican troops.

. . "our Troops made as good a Stand a.s could be expecteil and "did not quit the Ground, till they came to push their Itayonets."-- Lieutenant-colonel Tilghmnn to his Father, " WniTE-Pi Aixs, 31st October, "1776."

'Letter to a Gentlemen in Annapolis, dated "White-Plains, October 29, " 1770," published in The Pfnnsyltania Journal, No. 1771, I'iiilaiiel- PHIA, Wednesday, November 13, 17711.

'*Oiir own knowledge of tbi' ground and its approaches enable<l us to make the statement which appears in the text ; and, by a reference to .4 Plan of the Oamtry from Frogs I'oint to Croton liirt-r, the ri*ader may see the evidence of the accuracy of that statement.

I" Ij-Uer from the While Vlitins, dated October '28, 177G. at two o'clock, P.M., published in 7'he Pennsyhunia Evening Pout, Vol. II., No. a78, ' Philaoeli'IIIA, Thursday, October 31, 1776, and in The Pennnylvania Journal, No. 1770, Piiii.ai>ei.i-hia, Wednesday, November C, 1776.

" Memoirs of Major-general Heath, 79.

See, also, WUIiam Jhn-rimn to the Maryland Council of Softly, "(Jeokok- "town, Kent-coi ntv, '28 November, 1776."