Home / 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. / Passage

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. 304 words

See, also, the testimony, on the same subject, of Sergeant Churchill, of Tilley How, of James Linzer. and of Captain Keith, at the same trial.

•Understood, from aged peo|de, many years since, to have occupied the lower portion of the pro|>erty now occupied by the rcsi)ected widow of the late C. Halsey Mitchell -- that portion of that property, indeed, which was occupied, so many years, for the Law-olficea of Minott Mitchell, Esq., so long the head of the Uar of Westcliester-county.

General Orders of the Army, " nK.M>-gl AKTERS, Wmite-I'l.ms.'!, No- "vember 6,1776 ; " 'ITie Commitlie of S<ifely .for the Slate of yew- York to the President of the Congress, " Is Committee or Sakety fob the State " or Niw-YORK, FiSHKit.1., Kovcmbcr 28, 1776 ; " Memoirs of General Htath, 83 ; etc.

*GeHtral Orders of the .irmy, "Head-qiarters. Wiiite-Pi.ains, No- " Tember 6, 1776." *ConimitUe of Snfelt/ for the State of Seic-York t t the Ih-esideut of the

had inflicted the great wrong, only after the most vigorous effort of General Lee, was mildly " dis- " missed from the service," by the verdict of a second Court-martial, who sat in judgment, on the culprit; and he was turned over to the Convention of the State, to be dealt with, in an action by the State, resulting in his escape from the Jail at Kingston, which closed the subject, on the pages of history.

On Wednesday, the sixth of November, General Howe, with that portion of the Royal Army whom he had not pushed forward toward Kingsbridge, encamped at Dobbs's-ferry ; " and, on the same day, General Washington called a Council of his General Officers, to consult on such measures as should be adopted, in case the enemy should continue to fall back, on the City of New York.'^