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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. 302 words

vates, missing' -- among those who were killed were Captains Bracco and Scott, of Colonel Smallwood's Regiment; and, among those who were wounded, were Colonel Smallwood and Lieutenants Goldsmith and Waters, of the same Regiment. ^ General Howe reported to the Home Government, evidently including all who were captured in Westch ester-county, that one Captain, two Lieutenants, one Quarter-master, and thirty-five Privates were taken, "October 12 -- "White Plains;"'' but we have no means for ascertaining who of these were taken prisoners on the twenty-eighth of October. The loss sustained by the Second Brigade of British troops, commanded by General Leslie, was Lieutenant-colonel Carr,Captains Deering and Gore, Lieutenant Jocelyn, Ensign Eagle, oiu Sergeant, and twenty-nine Rank and File,* killed; Lieutenant-colonel Walcott,'' Captain Fitzgerald, Captain-lieutenant Ma.ssey,* Lieutenants Taylor, Banks, and Roberts, twelve Sergeants, and one hundred and two Rank and File, ' wounded ; and two Rank and File, * missing. ' The three Regiments composing the

1 The I'olluwiiig table will sliuw the losses which were sustained by each of the several Regiments whu were posted on the hill.

Reginient.s.

Killed.

'Wounded.

Missing.

1 Lieut. 1

1 Ensign. {

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1 Corporal.

1 Privates.

1 Colonel.

1 Captain.

1 Lieut.

1 Ensign.

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Corporals.

1 Privates.

Officers.

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Colonel Brook.s'.s * . . . Colonel Smallwood's . .

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Total, as far as reported

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Doctor Pine, in bis letter to .lames Tilghman, dated "Cami'.*t thi: " White-Pi.ains, November 7, 1770," Said, " the number of killed and "wounded, us the report is, in the Camp, amounts only to about ninety ; " but from the wounded 1 saw, myself, in the hospital and adjacent " houses, there must, at leimt, be an hundred and thirty wounded.