2 The Convention to General Washington, " White Plains, July 16, 1776." Of the last-named excellent suggestion, General Washington subsequently wrote, * * * "but I did not think myself at liberty tu '* urge or request his" [Governor TnwibulVs] "interest in forming the " Camp of six thousand men, as the levies, directed by Congress, on the " third of June, to be furnished for the defense of this place, by that "Government, are but little more than one-third come in. At the same "time, the proposition I think a good one, if it could be carried into "execution. In case the enemy should attempt to effect a landing " above Kingsbridge and to cut off the communication between this "City and the country, an Army to hang on their rear would distress "them exceedingly." (General Washington to the President of the Continental Congress, "New York, 19 July, 1776.")

See, also, the General's unusually war^n approval of the project, in his letter to the Convention, " Head-qjjaeteiis, New Tokk, July 19, 1776."

s General George Clinton to General Washington, "Fobt Montgomery, "Jnly23, 1776."

three miles of Fort Montgomery ; plundered the house of a poor man-- taking, among other things, " a " handkerchief full of Salad and a Pig so very poor " that a crow would scarcely deign to eat it "--setting the house on fire, when it was left ; and then, returning to the place where the tender had run aground, in the morning, cast her anchor, where, on the following day, the Phcenix joined her. 4