" lated to prevent the enemy's landing on that side " and becoming masters of the Highlands, opposite to " Fort Montgomery." ' When the evacuation of the City of New York was made at the expense of large quantities of Flour, it appointed Agents, with instructions to purchase all the Flour which could be obtained in Duchess, Orange, and Ulster-counties, and to send it to the Oommissary-general of the Army, at Spyt den Duivel-creek : * when the Army needed Pork, Beef, and other Stores, the Convention opened its Storehouses, in Westchester-county, into which it had gathered large quantities of the products of that County, the crops of the preceding year: 3 it purchased material for and provided for the manufacture of Clothing, for the Army : * it busied itself about salting Pork, in the County of Westchester, during the approaching season : 5 and whatever it supposed would promote the common cause and whatever it was requested to do, for that prapose, by either the Continental Congress or the Commanderin-chief or the General commanding the northern Army, was done, to the full extent of its ability and resources, with cheerfulness, promptitude, and thoroughness, never failing to receive, in return, the unqualified and entire approval of him whose entire approval was never idly bestowed.

On the twenty-first of September, the American Army, at Kingsbridge and its dependencies, which included General Heath's command, in Westchestercounty, consisted, nominally, of four thousand, five hundred, and twenty-eight Commissioned Officers, Staff, and Non-commissioned Officers, and twentyseven thousand, three hundred, and seventy-seven rank and file, exclusive of Colonel Knox's Regiment of Artillery, which contained, nominally, five hundred and forty-three men, including all the Commissioned and Non-commissioned Officers and Staff, and exclusive, also, of Colonel Durkee's Regiment and a Company of Artillery, both of them at Powle's-hook, now Jersey City, from whom no Returns had been received, during that week.