'*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."

'2 Colonel Hadel to General C»'ar Rodney, ' November 12."

Letter to a l^entlmtan in .4(*m«^(o/(j*, dated " White-Plains, October 29 " 1776 ;" published in The Pinnsytranin J'airnal, No. 1771, Philadelphia, Wednesday. November 13, 1776.

M Memoirs of General Heath, 79.

General Howe, in his despatch to Lord lieorge (iermaine, dated '• New - " York, 30 November, 1776," stated that, after the engagement, " the " Hessian (Jrenadiers," [those who had assaulted the l^ft of the Ami ricaus,] " were ordered forward, upon the heights, within cannon-sliot of the "entreuchiiients, the Bronx, from its winding course, being slill between

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

prepared his dinner, for the purpose of doing which he tore down and burned a barn which belonged to John Hunt, on property, on the western portion of the hill, which, in our younger days, belonged to his two sons, Thomas and Jacob Hunt. '