History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
All these, among other not much lessimportant results, although they were probably hidden from General ^\'ashington, when he devised and ordered the movement, were, unquestionably, among the residts, in America, of that " inexplicable " occupation of Chatterton's-hill, on the morning of the twenty-eighth of October, ITTli: with the results, in Europe, of that occupation, we have nothing to do, in this place.'
' In our preparation nf tliis ileiicriptinn of the engagement on Chattertoii's-liill, j;< niT,il!y calked " Tiik Batti.k "F Wiiitk-Pi.mns," \vc have exaiiiini-<l and useil Th.- biiinj of Ihirld Huir ; the Letter from the W hite Ptaiiw, daK-d October28, ITTfi, piiblisbedin The Veiiniujlcanvi Joiinuil, No. ITTit, PiiiLADELPiii.\, Wednee<la)-, November 6, ITTti ; the I.'-Uer/roiii the H7u7c-r(uiii>, dated Orlober 28, ITTC, at two o'l lotk, P.M., piiblUhed in
As we have elsewhere stated, theadvancing columns of the Royal Army had been formed, in line, with the Right resting on the road leading from the White Plains to Mamaroneck, and the Left resting on the
The I'eniisi/leiiiiiit Kreiiiiuj Post, Vol. II., No. 278, I'liii.ADKi.i'iiiA, Thursday, Octolter :U, I77(>, and in The PeuufylvauUi Joimutl, No. 1770, Piiii.A- OEi.piiiA, November (i, 177<i ; theX.«//er of (,'olotiel Itnbert II. Ilai-rimti to tUe rresUleiil of the Cuiiij} ess, dated " WniTK-l'l.AINS, October 29,1771; ; "' Ihe Letter tt> a Geidli iiHin in Aninipoliii, dated " WlIiTE-I'l.AINS, October *'2U, 1770," published in The Peinis/iletinia Jounud, No. 1771, Phii.ahki.- I'HIA, Wednewlay, Novonibei- 177(> ; the Letter from (he Cumii, dated Will iK-l'i.AiNs, October2i), 177ti, published in The Fnemati'sJouniiit, «r I Seir Ilmniishiie Ga.-.ille,\ul. I., No. 26, I'oKTSMorTIl, Tuesday, November T.', 1771; ; Geiieriil (irder of the Armij, in the case of ('olouel Webb, '• HKAn-gi'Ain'Kits, Wiin K-I'i.AiNS, October 2'.l, 1770;" Lieutenant entotn l Tihjhmnn's letter to iVillium l>Mr, dated " IlEAD-yUAItTBKs, WiiriE- " I'l.Ai.vs, October 29, 177G ; " the same to his fiilher, dated "WiilTE- " Plains, October :!1, 17711;" the Letter /mm Stnm/onl, dated October 30, 1770, published in The tVeenuin''8 Jonrnnl, or New-fiittnpshire Gazette, Vol.