Stedman said, " the troops thus landed," [on Staten Island,\ " consisted "of two Battalions of Light Infantry; two of Grenadiers; the Fourth, " Fifth, Tenth, Seventeenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-sev- " enth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-eighth, Fortieth, Forty-second, Forty-third, " Forty-fourth, Forty fifth, Forty-ninth, Fifty-second, Fifty-sixth, Sixty- " third, and Sixty-fourth Begiments of Foot ; parts of the Forty-sixth " and Seventy-first Begiments ; and the Seventeenth Eegiment of Light " Dragoons. There were, besides, two Companies of Volunteers, raised " at New-York, consisting of one hundred men each. The total amount " was nine thousand men" -- in which latter statement, in general terms, he is contradicted by General Howe, in his Observations, {vide pages, 191, 192, ante.) although he gave the aggregate, including the Officers and Staff, while General Howe included only "the Bank and File of his command.
unite with that Committee in sending a Delegation to the proposed Congress of the Continent which had been called for the purpose of securing a proper and united opposition to the measures of the Ministry and, as far as possible, a redress of the grievances of the Colonies, the great body of the farmers in that County disregarded that invitation ; and that the very few who accepted it, either personally or by their local Committees, assembled at the Court-house, in the White Plains ; called one of the principal landholders of the County, who was, also, at that time a Representative of the County in the General Assembly of the Colony, Frederic Philipse by name, to the Chair ; and signified the opposition to the measures of the Home Government, of, at least, those who were present, by authorizing the Delegation who had been elected to represent the City and County of New York, to represent, at the same time, the County ot Westchester, in that general assemblage of Delegates. 8