Hence the traditions which associate him with the last hospitalities of the Philipses at the Manor House have not the slightest likely foundation. It is unquestionable, however, that on more than one occasion during the Revolution he was the guest of the patriotic Colonel James Van Cortlandt at the old Van Cortlandt mansion in the " Little Vonkers." The old Valentine house, from which Washington's Vonkers dispatches were dated, was torn down many years ago. Headquarters were continued on Valentine's Hill during the 21st and 22d, and on

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Is " at White the 23d were removed to " the plain near the cross-roa< hat time been Plains, the evacuation of the country below having by t sti in n Washingto justify to ed sufficiently accomplish ationing hiniself at the termination of the route. w On the 22(1 the continued inactivity of the British, ith the pleass at Mamaro ing news of the American raid on the Loyalist Ranger neck, had a stimulating effect on the whole army, to which Washthe men and ington's personal presence, everywhere encouraging a continuous superintending the work, contributed. There was now Hill to White column of moving troops all the way from Valentine's ■nt across the Plains. A portion of the sick had been previously se

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Hudson to Fort Lee, but a large number of these unfortunates remained, who were given a position in the advance, being dispatched early on Use 22d and reaching White Plains the next morning. During the night, of the 22d General Sullivan's division completed the march, and from then until the close of the 26th the weary and bedraggled battalions kept steadily tiling into the White Plains camp. General Lee's division had the honor of bringing up the rear; and the time occupied on the march by this body, commanded by an officer of undoubted capacity (whatever may be said of him otherwise), may be taken as a fair indication of the extreme laboriousness of the army's progress.