After the advance of the British on the 18th from Throgg's Neck to Pell's Neck, and thence t<> New Rochelle, Washington put forth his utmost exertions toward marching his army as quickly as possible to the north. The enterprise, aside from the extreme fundamental hazard attending it on account of the expected appearance of Howe at any moment athwart the line of march, was beset with embarrassing physical difficulties. The facilities for the transportation of the cannon and impedimenta of all kinds were distressingly limited. There was an extreme scarcity of teams and wagons, and the work of transportation had to bo performed mostly by the soldiers. "The baggage and artillery," says Gordon, "were carried or drawn off by hand. When a part was forwarded, the other was fetched on. This was the general way of removing the camp equipage and other appendages of the army." Everything not absolutely needful was left behind, together with much that could not well be spared. The food supply of the army, for example, was dangerously 10W -- so iow that on the 20th Tilghman wrote in the following pressin sixty-five vantage of its eo-operation that General Howe England from expedition sailed from New York vessels on the 27th of July, but did not reach so long delayed his movement Neck, and from the latter It City to Throgg's New Vork City until the 18th of October. was possibly due to a desire to have the ad- place forward.

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in-;- terms to the State convention: "Upon a Survey of our Stores we find we are not so fully stocked as we could wish. Flour is what is most likely to be wanted. His Excellency therefore rails upon your Convention in the most pressing maimer, and begs you will set every Engine at work to send down every Barrel you can procure towards the Army." Yet at the last some eighty or ninety barrels of provisions had to be left at Kingsbridge for lack of means to transport them.