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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. 263 words

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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. The " number of killed I don't know."

- Letter lo a Geiilkman in .1 i/Hap"Jis, dated " Wiiite-Pi.ains, October 2'', " 1770;" imblished in Tlie IVtiMi/lnwin Journal, fSo. 1771, Phii.adei.- iMiiA, Wednesday, November 1776, and in Force's American Arckivrn, v., ii., V^M; LU nteiiant-culonel Gift Ut the Mitrtjland Council of Safetff, "Camp befokk the White-Pi.ains, 2 November, 177G ; " etc.

^ Return of Prisoners lal en during (/ic Oimpat'jii, 1776, signed by " Jos- " Loring, Commissary of Prisoners," appended to (Jeueral Howe's despatch to Lord tieoige Germaine, dated " New-Yukk, 3 December, 1776."

■•In General Leslie's Return, the killed were stated to have been only twenty-two Rank and File.

In General Leslie's Return, no mention wa-s made of a Field-officer of the Fifth Regiment having been wounded.

In General Leslie's Return of (tjlieers wounded, Captain Mafisey's name is amon^ those of the Lieutenants, although the tabular statement returns him !\s a Captain, in which it agrees with General Howe's Report. He wai* a Captain-Lieutenant.

' In General Leslie's Return, the wounded were slated to have numbered one hundred and twelve Rank and File.